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Psalms 26:9 — King James Version← Study notes

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:


Psalms 26:9Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 26:99 words
HebrewMeaning
אַלʾal
may notparticleH408
neither · never · no · nor ···
תֶּאֱסֹ֣ףteʾĕsōp
you removeverbH622
bring · consume · destroy · felch ···
עִםʿim
withpronH5973
against · and · as · before ···
חַטָּאִ֣יםḥaṭāʾiym
sinnersadjH2400
sinful · sinner
נַפְשִׁ֑/יnapəšiy
life mynounH5315
appetite · beast · body · breath ···
וְ/עִםwəʿim
and withconjH5973
against · and · as · before ···
אַנְשֵׁ֖יʾanəšēy
mannounH376
another · any · a certain · champion ···
דָמִ֣יםdāmiym
bloodnounH1818
-guiltiness · innocent
חַיָּֽ/יḥayāy
life mynounH2416
age · appetite · beast · company ···
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 26:9

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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