Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Second part of the main body. As the former part expanded, 'I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted in the Lord,' so this second part expands. 'Judge me, O Lord ... let me not slide (Psalms 26:1).
Gather ... sinners - involve me not in one common destruction with them х 'aacap (H622), to collect, with a view of taking away], (Jeremiah 8:13, margin) As "I have hated the congregation of evil-doers" (Psalms 26:5), and have sought the society of thy true worshippers (Psalms 26:6-7), do not "gather" me in the doomed company of the wicked (Psalms 28:3), but 'let my soul be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord my God' (1 Samuel 25:29). There is a reference to, Genesis 18:23.