Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
- BSB Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,
- NKJV Do not gather my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
- NASB Do not take my soul away along with sinners, Nor my life with men of bloodshed,
- NLT Don’t let me suffer the fate of sinners. Don’t condemn me along with murderers.
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Quick answer
David prays not to be swept away with sinners and violent men. He asks to be spared the fate of the wicked.
Overview
David pleads that God would not include him among sinners and bloodthirsty men when judgment falls. He desires a destiny different from that of the wicked. This plea expresses dependence on God's mercy rather than confidence in self, a separation from condemnation ultimately secured for believers through Christ, who delivers his people from wrath.
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- Rev 22:14–15Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
- Matt 25:32And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
- Ps 139:19Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
- Matt 24:51And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- 2 Sam 16:7And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
- 1 Sam 25:29Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
- 1 Sam 22:18–19And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
- Mal 3:18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
- Ps 51:14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
- Ps 28:1–3Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
- Ps 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Matt 25:46And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
- Matt 25:44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
- 2 Sam 21:1Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
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