Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Do not take away my soul along with sinners, my life with those who are bloodthirsty, New Living Translation Don’t let me suffer the fate of sinners. Don’t condemn me along with murderers. English Standard Version Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men, Berean Standard Bible Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed, King James Bible Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: New King James Version Do not gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men, New American Standard Bible Do not take my soul away along with sinners, Nor my life with men of bloodshed, NASB 1995 Do not take my soul away along with sinners, Nor my life with men of bloodshed, NASB 1977 Do not take my soul away along with sinners, Nor my life with men of bloodshed, Legacy Standard Bible Do not take my soul away along with sinners, Nor my life with men of bloodshed, Amplified Bible Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, Nor [sweep away] my life with men of bloodshed, Christian Standard Bible Do not destroy me along with sinners, or my life along with men of bloodshed Holman Christian Standard Bible Do not destroy me along with sinners, or my life along with men of bloodshed American Standard Version Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood; Aramaic Bible in Plain English Do not destroy me with the sinners, or my life with bloody men. Brenton Septuagint Translation Destroy not my soul together with the ungodly, nor my life with bloody men: Contemporary English Version Don't sweep me away, as you do sinners. Don't punish me with death as you do those people who are brutal Douay-Rheims Bible Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men: English Revised Version Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood: GOD'S WORD® Translation Do not sweep away my soul along with hardened sinners or my life along with bloodthirsty people. Good News Translation Do not destroy me with the sinners; spare me from the fate of murderers-- International Standard Version Do not group me with sinners, nor include me with men who shed blood. JPS Tanakh 1917 Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood; Literal Standard Version Do not gather my soul with sinners, | And my life with men of blood, Majority Standard Bible Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed, New American Bible Do not take me away with sinners, nor my life with the men of blood, NET Bible Do not sweep me away with sinners, or execute me along with violent people, New Revised Standard Version Do not sweep me away with sinners, nor my life with the bloodthirsty, New Heart English Bible Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men; Webster's Bible Translation Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: World English Bible Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men Young's Literal Translation Do not gather with sinners my soul, And with men of blood my life, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Vindicate Me, O LORD…8O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides. 9Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed, 10in whose hands are wicked schemes, whose right hands are full of bribes.… Cross References Psalm 28:3 Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts. Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness. Psalm 59:2 Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed. Psalm 139:19 O God, that You would slay the wicked--away from me, you bloodthirsty men-- Treasury of Scripture Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: Gather not. Psalm 28:1-3 A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit… 1 Samuel 25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling. Malachi 3:18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. bloody men [heb. Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. Psalm 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. Psalm 139:19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. Jump to Previous Blood Bloodshed Bloodthirsty Bloody Gather Life Numbered Sinners Soul SweepJump to Next Blood Bloodshed Bloodthirsty Bloody Gather Life Numbered Sinners Soul SweepPsalm 26 1. David resorts to God in confidence of his integrity(9) Gather not.--Better as in margin. The psalmist prays that he may be spared to worship in the sanctuary, when doom falls on evildoers and carries them off. The LXX. and Vulg. have "destroy not."Verse 9. - Gather not my soul with sinners. Unite me not in one doom with open sinners - those with whom I have always refused to consort (vers. 4, 5) - whose congregation I have "hated." "That the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25). Nor my life with bloody men. Bloody men - literally, men of bloods - are the worst of wicked men, cut-throats, assassins, murderers. At any rate, put me not on a par with them. Little, probably, did the psalmist think at this time how soon he was to become, practically, a murderer, and to "slay Uriah the Hittite with the sword of the children of Ammon" (2 Samuel 12:9) Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Do notאַל־ (’al-) Adverb Strong's 408: Not take תֶּאֱסֹ֣ף (te·’ĕ·sōp̄) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 622: To gather for, any purpose, to receive, take away, remove my soul נַפְשִׁ֑י (nap̄·šî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion away with עִם־ (‘im-) Preposition Strong's 5973: With, equally with sinners, חַטָּאִ֣ים (ḥaṭ·ṭā·’îm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 2400: A criminal, one accounted guilty or my life חַיָּֽי׃ (ḥay·yāy) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life with וְעִם־ (wə·‘im-) Conjunctive waw | Preposition Strong's 5973: With, equally with men אַנְשֵׁ֖י (’an·šê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person of bloodshed, דָמִ֣ים (ḏā·mîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed Links Psalm 26:9 NIVPsalm 26:9 NLT Psalm 26:9 ESV Psalm 26:9 NASB Psalm 26:9 KJV Psalm 26:9 BibleApps.com Psalm 26:9 Biblia Paralela Psalm 26:9 Chinese Bible Psalm 26:9 French Bible Psalm 26:9 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 26:9 Don't gather my soul with sinners (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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