Psalm 26:9 {25:9}
Good News Translation
Do not destroy me with the sinners; spare me from the fate of murderers--

New Revised Standard Version
Do not sweep me away with sinners, nor my life with the bloodthirsty,

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

New American Bible
Do not take me away with sinners, nor my life with the men of blood,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:

Gather not.

Psalm 28:1-3 A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. . . .

1 Samuel 25:29 For if a man at any time shall rise, and persecute thee, and seek thy life, the soul of my lord shall be kept, as in the bundle of the living, with the Lord thy God: but the souls of thy enemies shall be whirled, as with the violence and whirling of a sling.

Malachi 3:18 And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

Matthew 24:51 And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 25:32,44,46 And all nations shall be gathered together before him: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats: . . .

Revelation 22:14,15 Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in by the gates into the city. . . .

bloody men [heb.

Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

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, O Lord.

Psalm 139:19 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:

1 Samuel 22:18,19 And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite, turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod. . . .

2 Samuel 16:7 And thus said Semei when he cursed the king: Come out, come out, thou man of blood, and thou man of Belial.

2 Samuel 21:1 And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the Gabaonites.

Context
Vindicate Me, O LORD
8I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house; and the place where thy glory dwelleth. 9Take not away my soul, O God, with the wicked: nor my life with bloody men:10In whose hands are iniquities: their right hand is filled with gifts.…
Cross References
Psalm 28:3
Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not: Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts.

Psalm 51:14
Deliver me from blood, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall extol thy justice.

Psalm 59:2
Deliver me from them that work iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psalm 139:19
If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:

Psalm 26:8
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