Psalm 26:9
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Verse 9. Gather not my soul with sinners. The Lord hath a harvest and a gleaning time also, set for cutting down and binding together, in the fellowship of judgments, God's enemies, who have followed the same course of sinning: for here we are given to understand that God will "gather their souls," and so will let none escape. David Dickson.
Verse 9. Gather not my soul with sinners. After all, it may be objected that this concern seems to be common with saints and sinners. Even a wicked Balaam said, "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." Numbers 23:10 . Take a few differences between them in this matter.
Verse 9-12. David prays that God would not "gather his soul with sinners, whose right hand is full of bribes;" such as, for advantage, would be bribed to sin, to which wicked gang he opposeth himself, Psalms 26:11 ; "But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity;" where he tells us what kept him from being corrupted and enticed, as they were; from God -- it was his integrity. A soul walking in its integrity will take bribes neither from men, nor sin itself: and therefore he saith Psalms 26:12 , "His foot stood in an even place;" or, as some read it, "My foot standeth in righteousness." William Gurnall.
HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS
Verse 9. See "Spurgeon's Sermons," No. 524. "The Saints' Horror at the Sinners' Hell."