Psalms 26:9
7 to raise my voice in thanksgiving and declare all Your wonderful works.
8 O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
10 in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.
11 But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
- KJV
- Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
- WEB
- Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men
- ASV
- Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood;
- DARBY
- Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood;
- BLB
- Do not gather my soul with sinners, and my life with men of blood,
- ÅB
- Rykk ikke sjelen min bort med syndere
eller livet mitt med blodtørstige menn, - OTB
- Samle ikke min sjel med syndere,
Eller mitt liv med dem som utøser blod, - B1930
- Rykk ikke min sjel bort med syndere eller mitt liv med blodgjerrige menn,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 25:32
All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Read in contextRevelation 22:14–15
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by its gates.
Read in contextPsalms 139:19
O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
Read in contextMatthew 25:44
And they too will reply, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’
Read in context1 Samuel 22:18–19
So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
Read in contextMatthew 25:46
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Read in contextMalachi 3:18
So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
Read in context2 Samuel 21:1
During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
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