Psalms 26:9,10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Gather not my soul That is, my life, as it is explained in the next clause; with sinners Profligate and obstinate sinners, as the following words describe them, such being often called sinners by way of eminence. Do not bind me up in the same bundle, nor put me in the same accursed and miserable condition with them. Seeing I have loved thy house and worship, and endeavoured to serve thee acceptably, not only with ceremonial cleanness, but with moral purity of heart and life, do not deal with me as thou wilt with those that are filled with ungodliness and unrighteousness; do not destroy me with them, the righteous with the wicked; but save me in the common calamity, as thou hast been wont to do in such cases. In whose hands is mischief Who not only imagine mischief in their hearts, but persist in it, and execute it with their hands. And their right hand Which should be stretched out to execute justice and punish offenders; is full of bribes By which they are induced to pervert justice, acquit the guilty, and punish the innocent.