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Psalms 26:5
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I hate a crowd of evildoers,and I do not sit with the wicked.
I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
I hate the company of evil people, and I won't sit with the wicked.
I hate the mob of evil men, and do not associate with the wicked.
I hate the company of evildoers, And will not sit with the wicked.
I hate the assembly of evildoers, And I will not sit with the wicked.
I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
I haue hated the assemblie of the euill, and haue not companied with the wicked.
I hate the assembly of evildoers,And I will not sit with the wicked.
I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
or go with evil crowds.
I hate the company of evildoers, I will not sit with the wicked.
I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked.
I hate being around evil people. I refuse to join those gangs of crooks.
I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and have not sat with the wicked.
I hate the company of the evil and avoid the wicked.
I hate the crowd of evildoers, and with the wicked I will not sit.
I have hated the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
I hate the congregacion of the wicked, and I will not syt amonge the vngodly.
I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
I hate the gathering of evil doers, and will not sit with the wicked.
I haue hated the congregation of euill doers: and will not sit with the wicked.
I haue hated the congregation of the malitious: and I wyll not sit amongst the vngodly.
I have hated the assembly of wicked doers; and will not sit with ungodly men.
I hate the congregation of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked.
I hatide the chirche of yuele men; and Y schal not sitte with wickid men.
I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And will not sit with the wicked.
I hate the gatherings of those who do evil, and I refuse to join in with the wicked.
I hate the meeting of sinners, and will not sit with the sinful.
I hate the company of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.
I have hated the convocation of evil-doers, and, with lawless men, would I not sit;
(25-5) I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.
I hate the company of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.
I hate the assembly of evildoers, And I will not sit with the wicked.
Contextual Overview
A David Psalm
Clear my name, God ; I've kept an honest shop. I've thrown in my lot with you, God , and I'm not budging. 2 Examine me, God , from head to foot, order your battery of tests. Make sure I'm fit inside and out 3 So I never lose sight of your love, But keep in step with you, never missing a beat. 4 I don't hang out with tricksters, I don't pal around with thugs; I hate that pack of gangsters, I don't deal with double-dealers.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
So Abram left just as God said, and Lot left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot with him, along with all the possessions and people they had gotten in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan and arrived safe and sound. Abram passed through the country as far as Shechem and the Oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites occupied the land.
Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all his servants, whether houseborn or purchased—every male in his household—and circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins that very day, just as God had told him.
There was a famine in the land, as bad as the famine during the time of Abraham. And Isaac went down to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar.
God appeared to him and said, "Don't go down to Egypt; stay where I tell you. Stay here in this land and I'll be with you and bless you. I'm giving you and your children all these lands, fulfilling the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. I'll make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky and give them all these lands. All the nations of the Earth will get a blessing for themselves through your descendants. And why? Because Abraham obeyed my summons and kept my charge—my commands, my guidelines, my teachings."
So Isaac stayed put in Gerar.
"Trivialize even the smallest item in God's Law and you will only have trivialized yourself. But take it seriously, show the way for others, and you will find honor in the kingdom. Unless you do far better than the Pharisees in the matters of right living, you won't know the first thing about entering the kingdom.
"These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit—but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock.
With all this going for us, my dear, dear friends, stand your ground. And don't hold back. Throw yourselves into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort.
By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God's call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.
Wasn't our ancestor Abraham "made right with God by works" when he placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar? Isn't it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners, that faith expresses itself in works? That the works are "works of faith"? The full meaning of "believe" in the Scripture sentence, "Abraham believed God and was set right with God," includes his action. It's that mesh of believing and acting that got Abraham named "God's friend." Is it not evident that a person is made right with God not by a barren faith but by faith fruitful in works?
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.
