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Complete Jewish Bible

Psalms 28:3

Don't drag me off with the wicked, with those whose deeds are evil; they speak words of peace to their fellowmen, but evil is in their hearts.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Company;   Falsehood;   Heart;   The Topic Concordance - Destruction;   Iniquity;   Mischief;   Rendering;   Wickedness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Heart, Character of the Unrenewed;   Peace;   Titles and Names of the Wicked;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ahabah (Ahawah, aḥa, aḥwa) B. Zeira (Zera);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Do not drag me away with the wicked,with the evildoers,who speak in friendly ways with their neighborswhile malice is in their hearts.
Hebrew Names Version
Don't draw me away with the wicked, With the workers of iniquity who speak shalom with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
King James Version
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
English Standard Version
Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.
New Century Version
Don't drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil. They say "Peace" to their neighbors, but evil is in their hearts.
New English Translation
Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!
Amplified Bible
Do not drag me away with the wicked And with those who do evil, Who speak peace with their neighbors, While malice and mischief are in their hearts.
New American Standard Bible
Do not drag me away with the wicked And with those who practice injustice, Who speak peace with their neighbors, While evil is in their hearts.
World English Bible
Don't draw me away with the wicked, With the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Drawe mee not away with the wicked, and with the woorkers of iniquitie: which speake friendly to their neighbours, when malice is in their hearts.
Legacy Standard Bible
Do not drag me away with the wickedAnd with workers of iniquity,Who speak peace with their neighbors,While evil is in their hearts.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
Don't drag me away, Lord , with those cruel people, who speak kind words, while planning trouble.
Darby Translation
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbours, and mischief is in their heart.
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't treat me like the evil people who do wicked things. They greet their neighbors like friends, but secretly plan to hurt them.
George Lamsa Translation
Count me not with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Good News Translation
Do not condemn me with the wicked, with those who do evil— those whose words are friendly, but who have hatred in their hearts.
Lexham English Bible
Do not drag me away with the wicked or with the workers of evil, who speak of peace with their neighbors, while evil is in their heart.
Literal Translation
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity; who speak peace with their neighbors, yet evil is in their hearts.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O plucke me not awaye amonge the vngodly and wicked doers, which speake frendly to their neghboure, but ymagin myschefe in their hertes.
American Standard Version
Draw me not away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
Bible in Basic English
Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity;
King James Version (1611)
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquitie: which speake peace to their neighbors, but mischiefe is in their hearts.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbours, but evils are in their hearts.
English Revised Version
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity; which speak peace with their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bitake thou not me togidere with synneris; and leese thou not me with hem that worchen wickidnesse. Whyche speken pees with her neiybore; but yuels ben in her hertis.
Update Bible Version
Don't draw me away with the wicked, And with the workers of iniquity; That speak peace with their neighbors, But mischief is in their hearts.
Webster's Bible Translation
Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief [is] in their hearts.
New King James Version
Do not take me away with the wicked And with the workers of iniquity, Who speak peace to their neighbors, But evil is in their hearts.
New Living Translation
Do not drag me away with the wicked— with those who do evil— those who speak friendly words to their neighbors while planning evil in their hearts.
New Life Bible
Do not drag me away with the sinful and with those who do bad things. They speak peace with their neighbors, while sin is in their hearts.
New Revised Standard
Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who are workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors, while mischief is in their hearts.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Do not drag me away - with the lawless, or with the workers of iniquity, - who speak peaceably with their neighbours, but, wrong, is in their heart.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(27-3) 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.
Revised Standard Version
Take me not off with the wicked, with those who are workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors, while mischief is in their hearts.
Young's Literal Translation
Draw me not with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbours, And evil in their heart.
THE MESSAGE
Don't shove me into the same jail cell with those crooks, With those who are full-time employees of evil. They talk a good line of "peace," then moonlight for the Devil. Pay them back for what they've done, for how bad they've been. Pay them back for their long hours in the Devil's workshop; Then cap it with a huge bonus.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do not drag me away with the wicked And with those who work iniquity, Who speak peace with their neighbors, While evil is in their hearts.

Contextual Overview

1 By David: Adonai , I am calling to you; my Rock, don't be deaf to my cry. For if you answer me with silence, I will be like those who fall in a pit. 2 Hear the sound of my prayers when I cry to you, when I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary. 3 Don't drag me off with the wicked, with those whose deeds are evil; they speak words of peace to their fellowmen, but evil is in their hearts. 4 Pay them back for their deeds, as befits their evil acts; repay them for what they have done, give them what they deserve. 5 For they don't understand the deeds of Adonai or what he has done. He will break them down; he will not build them up.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Draw: Psalms 26:9, Numbers 16:26, Matthew 25:41, Matthew 25:46

speak: Psalms 12:2, Psalms 55:21, Psalms 62:4, Jeremiah 9:8, Jeremiah 9:9, Micah 3:5, Matthew 22:15-18

mischief: Psalms 7:14, Psalms 10:7, Psalms 10:14, Psalms 36:4, Psalms 52:1, Proverbs 26:23-26

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:6 - come Psalms 5:10 - let Psalms 35:25 - say Proverbs 24:2 - General Proverbs 26:25 - speaketh fair Ezekiel 32:20 - draw Matthew 26:48 - Whomsoever Luke 13:27 - depart Luke 17:34 - two Luke 22:55 - Peter John 14:27 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them: God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air and every living creature that crawls on the earth."
Genesis 9:1
God blessed Noach and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth.
Genesis 13:16
and I will make your descendants as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth — so that if a person can count the specks of dust on the earth, then your descendants can be counted.
Genesis 24:60
They blessed Rivkah with these words: "Our sister, may you be the mother of millions, and may your descendants possess the cities of those who hate them."
Genesis 28:1
So Yitz'chak called Ya‘akov, and, after blessing him, charged him: "You are not to choose a wife from the Hitti women.
Genesis 28:6
Now ‘Esav saw that Yitz'chak had blessed Ya‘akov and sent him away to Paddan-Aram to choose a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, "You are not to choose a Kena‘ani woman as your wife,"
Genesis 28:17
Then he became afraid and said, "This place is fearsome! This has to be the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!"
Genesis 28:18
Ya‘akov got up early in the morning, took the stone he had put under his head, set it up as a standing-stone, poured olive oil on its top
Genesis 35:11
God further said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed a group of nations, will come from you; kings will be descended from you.
Genesis 41:52
The second he called Efrayim [fruit], "For God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortune."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Draw me not away with the wicked,.... That is, with those who are notoriously wicked; who are inwardly and outwardly wicked; whose inward part is very wickedness, and who sell themselves and give up themselves to work wickedness: the sense is, that God would not suffer him to be drawn away, or drawn aside by wicked men, but that he would deliver him from temptation; or that he would not give him up into their hands, to be at their mercy; who he knew would not spare him, if they had him in their power; or that he might not die the death of the wicked, and perish with them; see Psalms 26:9;

and with the workers of iniquity; who make it the trade and business of their lives to commit sin; and which may be applied, not only to profane sinners, but to professors of religion, Matthew 7:23; since it follows,

which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief [is] in their hearts; hypocrites, double minded men, who have a form of godliness, but deny the power of it; pretend to religion, and have none; and speak fair to the face, but design mischief and ruin; as Saul and his servants did to David, 1 Samuel 18:17.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Draw me not away with the wicked - See the notes at Psalms 26:9. The prayer here, as well as the prayer in Psalms 26:9, expresses a strong desire not to be united with wicked people in feeling or in destiny - in life or in death - on earth or in the future world. The reason of the prayer seems to have been that the psalmist, being at this time under a strong temptation to associate with wicked persons, and feeling the force of the temptation, was apprehensive that he should be left to “yield” to it, and to become associated with them. Deeply conscious of this danger, he earnestly prays that he may not be left to yield to the power of the temptation, and fall into sin. So the Saviour Matthew 6:13 has taught us to pray, “And lead us not into temptation.” None who desire to serve God can be insensible to the propriety of this prayer. The temptations of the world are so strong; the amusements in which the world indulges are so brilliant and fascinating; they who invite us to partake of their pleasures are often so elevated in their social position, so refined in their manners, and so cultivated by education; the propensities of our hearts for such indulgences are so strong by nature; habits formed before our conversion are still so powerful; and the prospect of worldly advantages from compliance with the customs of those around us are often so great - that we cannot but feel that it is proper for us to go to the throne of grace, and to plead earnestly with God that he will keep us and not suffer us to fall into the snare.

Especially is this true of those who before they were converted had indulged in habits of intemperance, or in sensual pleasures of any kind, and who are invited by their old companions in sin again to unite with them in their pursuits. Here all the power of the former habit returns; here often there is a most fierce struggle between conscience and the old habit for victory; here especially those who are thus tempted need the grace of God to keep them; here there is special appropriateness in the prayer, “Draw me not away with the wicked.”

And with the workers of iniquity - In any form. With those who do evil.

Which speak peace to their neighbours - Who speak words of friendliness. Who “seem” to be persuading you to do that which is for your good. Who put on plausible pretexts. They appear to be your friends; they profess to be so. They use flattering words while they tempt you to go astray.

But mischief is in their hearts - They are secretly plotting your ruin. They wish to lead you into such courses of life in order that you may fall into sin; that you may dishonor religion; that you may disgrace your profession; or that they may in some way profit by your compliance with their counsels. So the wicked, under plausible pretences, would allure the good; so the corrupt would seduce the innocent; so the enemies of God would entice his friends, that they may bring shame and reproach upon the cause of religion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 28:3. Draw me not away — Let me not be involved in the punishment of the wicked.


 
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