Gather not my soul with sinners
Profligate and abandoned ones, such as are notoriously profane,
and who live and die impenitent ones; otherwise all men are
sinners: the sense is, either that he desires that he might not,
by any means, be brought into the company of such persons, be
joined unto them, and have a conversation with them, which would
be uncomfortable, dishonourable, and dangerous; or that God would
not destroy him with them; and that he might not die the death of
the wicked, nor be gathered with them at death: death is often
expressed by a man's being gathered to his people, and to his
fathers; see ( 2 Kings
22:20 ) ; the body is gathered to the grave, the soul returns
to God that gave it, and has its place assigned by him; the souls
of the righteous are gathered into heaven, Christ's garner; the
souls of the wicked into hell; the psalmist deprecates being
gathered with them;
nor my life with bloody men;
that thirst after blood, lie in wait for it, shed it, and are
drunk with it, as the antichristian party; these God abhors and
detests; nor shall they live out half their days, and their end
is miserable.