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Friday, November 1st, 2024
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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King James Version

Psalms 26:5

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Company;   Fellowship;   Obedience;   Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Golden Rule;   Hate, Hatred;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Conversations;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sitting;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Didache;   Didascalia;   Hatred;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I hate the gatherings of those who do evil, and I refuse to join in with the wicked.
English Revised Version
I hate the congregation of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked.
Update Bible Version
I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
New Century Version
I hate the company of evil people, and I won't sit with the wicked.
New English Translation
I hate the mob of evil men, and do not associate with the wicked.
Webster's Bible Translation
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
World English Bible
I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
Amplified Bible
I hate the company of evildoers, And will not sit with the wicked.
English Standard Version
I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I hatide the chirche of yuele men; and Y schal not sitte with wickid men.
Berean Standard Bible
I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
Contemporary English Version
or go with evil crowds.
American Standard Version
I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
Bible in Basic English
I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
Complete Jewish Bible
I hate the company of evildoers, I will not sit with the wicked.
Darby Translation
I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked.
Easy-to-Read Version
I hate being around evil people. I refuse to join those gangs of crooks.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I hate the gathering of evil doers, and will not sit with the wicked.
King James Version (1611)
I haue hated the congregation of euill doers: and will not sit with the wicked.
New Life Bible
I hate the meeting of sinners, and will not sit with the sinful.
New Revised Standard
I hate the company of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue hated the assemblie of the euill, and haue not companied with the wicked.
George Lamsa Translation
I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and have not sat with the wicked.
Good News Translation
I hate the company of the evil and avoid the wicked.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I have hated the convocation of evil-doers, and, with lawless men, would I not sit;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(25-5) I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.
Revised Standard Version
I hate the company of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I haue hated the congregation of the malitious: and I wyll not sit amongst the vngodly.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly men.
Christian Standard Bible®
I hate a crowd of evildoers,and I do not sit with the wicked.
Hebrew Names Version
I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
Lexham English Bible
I hate the crowd of evildoers, and with the wicked I will not sit.
Literal Translation
I have hated the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
Young's Literal Translation
I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I hate the congregacion of the wicked, and I will not syt amonge the vngodly.
New American Standard Bible
I hate the assembly of evildoers, And I will not sit with the wicked.
New King James Version
I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And will not sit with the wicked.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I hate the assembly of evildoers, And I will not sit with the wicked.
Legacy Standard Bible
I hate the assembly of evildoers,And I will not sit with the wicked.

Contextual Overview

1 Judge me, O Lord ; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord ; therefore I shall not slide. 2 Examine me, O Lord , and prove me; try my reins and my heart. 3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth. 4 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. 5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hated: Psalms 31:6, Psalms 101:3-8, Psalms 139:21, Psalms 139:22

will: Psalms 1:1, Matthew 9:11, Matthew 9:12, 1 Corinthians 5:9-11

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:12 - pitched Genesis 49:6 - come Job 8:6 - thou wert Psalms 119:115 - Depart Proverbs 1:15 - walk Proverbs 2:12 - deliver Proverbs 4:14 - General Proverbs 24:19 - Fret Jeremiah 15:17 - sat not Luke 22:55 - Peter 2 Corinthians 6:14 - for Ephesians 5:11 - no Revelation 2:6 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 12:4
So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Genesis 18:19
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord , to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Genesis 22:16
And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord , for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
Genesis 22:18
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Genesis 26:1
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
Genesis 26:2
And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
Genesis 26:6
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
Matthew 5:19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 7:24
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have hated the congregation of evildoers,.... That do harm to the persons, characters, or properties of men; and who meet together in bodies, to consult and form schemes to do mischief, and have their assemblies to encourage each other in it; these, their works and actions, the psalmist hated, though not their persons; and showed his displicency at them, and dislike and disapprobation of them, by absenting from them; see Jeremiah 15:17;

and will not sit with the wicked; ungodly and unrighteous men, sons of Belial; for with such what fellowship and concord can there be? 2 Corinthians 6:14; the word x signifies restless and uneasy persons, who cannot rest unless they do mischief; are like the troubled sea, continually casting up mire and dirt, Isaiah 57:20; now, by all this the psalmist means not that good men should have no manner of conversation with the men of the world: for then, as the apostle says, we must needs go out of the world, 1 Corinthians 5:9. Conversation in civil things, in matters of trade and business, is lawful; though all unnecessary conversation in things of civil life is to be shunned; no more should be had than what natural relation and the business of life require; but all conversation in things criminal is to be avoided; company is not to be kept with them, so as to join them in anything sinful; this is to harden them in their evil ways, and it brings into danger and into disgrace: a man is known and is judged of by the company that he keeps; and evil communications corrupt good manners.

x רשע "significat inquietum esse, ceu patet ex", Isa. xlviii. 22. Gejerus

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have hated - We have here the same evidence of his piety repeated in another and a stronger form. In the previous verse he had merely stated that he had not been found among that class of persons, or that he had not made them his companions. He here says positively that he disapproved of their principles; that he hated the purpose for which they gathered themselves together; that he had no sympathy whatever with them.

The congregation of evil-doers - All such assemblages as were gathered together for wicked purposes, for sin and revelry; to plot wickedness; to injure men; to oppose God.

And will not sit with the wicked - That is, I will not be associated with them. This was the fixed purpose of his soul; and this was then, as it is now, an evidence of true piety. This, moreover, is an “indispensable” evidence of piety. He who does thus sit with the wicked; who makes them his companions and friends; who unites with them in their plans and purposes; who partakes with them in their special amusements and pursuits, cannot possibly be a pious man. If he mingles with such people at all, it must be only as demanded by the necessities of social or civil life; or in the transactions of business; or for the purpose of doing them good. If it is for other purposes, if he makes them his chosen companions and friends, he gives the clearest evidence that his heart is with them, and that it is not with God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 26:5. I have hated the congregation of evil doers — I have never made one in the crowds of discontented persons; persons who, under pretense of rectifying what was wrong in the state, strove to subvert it, to breed general confusion, to overturn the laws, seize on private property, and enrich themselves by the spoils of the country.


 
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