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Psalms 26:5 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Psalms 26:5Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 26:57 words
HebrewMeaning
שָׂ֭נֵאתִיśānēʾtiy
I hateverbH8130
foe · hate(-ful · -r) · odious ···
קְהַ֣לqəhal
the assembly ofnounH6951
company · congregation · multitude
מְרֵעִ֑יםmərēʿiym
evil-doersverbH7489
associate selves (by mistake for
וְ/עִםwəʿim
and withconjH5973
against · and · as · before ···
רְ֝שָׁעִ֗יםrəšāʿiym
wicked peopleadjH7563
condemned · ungodly · wicked · that did wrong
לֹ֣אlōʾ
notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
אֵשֵֽׁבʾēšēb
I sitverbH3427
continue · (cause to · make to) dwell · ease self ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 26:5

Of David himself. 1. It may be attributed to David himself, not the Mediator, the Man Christ Jesus, but the whole Church now perfectly established in Christ. 2. “Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in my innocence” Psalm 25:1. Judge me, O Lord, for, after the mercy which You first showed me, I have some desert of my innocence, the way whereof I have kept. “And trusting in the Lord I shall not be moved.” And yet not even so trusting in myself, but in the Lord, I shall abide…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 26
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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