Psalms 26:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־תֶּאֱסֹ֣ף עִם־חַטָּאִ֣ים נַפְשִׁ֑י וְעִם־אַנְשֵׁ֖י דָמִ֣ים חַיָּֽי׃

Transliteration

Not-teʾĕsōp̄ with-ḥaṭṭāʾîm nap̄šî and-with-ʾanšê ḏāmîm ḥayyāy.

Grammar Details

*teʾĕsōp̄*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular, jussive - may you gather/take away
*ḥaṭṭāʾîm*: masculine plural noun - sinners
*nap̄šî*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*ʾanšê*: construct plural of man - men of
*ḏāmîm*: masculine plural noun - bloods/bloodshed
*ḥayyāy*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my life

Word Meanings

*teʾĕsōp̄*: may you gather/take away/sweep away
*ḥaṭṭāʾîm*: sinners/offenders
*nap̄šî*: my soul/my life/myself
*ʾanšê* *ḏāmîm*: men of blood/bloodthirsty men/murderers
*ḥayyāy*: my life/my lifetime

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Referenced Verses

Ps 139:19 : 19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.
Mal 3:18 : 18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Matt 24:51 : 51 and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Matt 25:32 : 32 and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats;
Matt 25:44 : 44 Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
Matt 25:46 : 46 And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.
Rev 22:14-15 : 14 Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right [to come] to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. 15 {G1161} Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.
1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
1 Sam 25:29 : 29 And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
2 Sam 16:7 : 7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Begone, begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow:
2 Sam 21:1 : 1 And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.
Ps 28:1-3 : 1 [ A Psalm of David.] Unto thee, O Jehovah, will I call: My rock, be not thou deaf unto me; Lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down into the pit. 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. 3 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.
Ps 51:14 : 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; [And] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Ps 55:23 : 23 But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.

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