Psalms 26 · Verse 5

Psalms 26:5

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
Psalms 26:5, King James Version

Psalms 26:5 in other translations

BSBI hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.
WEBI hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.
ASVI hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
YLTI have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.
DARBYI have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and I have not sat with the wicked.
BBEI have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.
WebsterI have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

What does Psalms 26:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 26:4-8

4-8. As exemplified by the fruits of divine grace, presented in his life, especially in his avoiding the wicked and his purposes of cleaving to God's worship.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 I have hated the congregation of evil doers - I have never made one in the crowds of discontented persons; persons who, under pretense of rectifying what was wrong in the state, strove to subvert it, to breed general confusion, to overturn the laws, seize on private property, and enrich themselves by the spoils of the country.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Psalms 26:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שָׂ֭נֵאתִיSa.ne.tiI hateH8130
קְהַ֣לke.Hal[the] assembly ofH6951
מְרֵעִ֑יםme.re.'Imevil-doersH7489
וְעִם\־ve.'im-and withH5973
רְ֝שָׁעִ֗יםre.sha.'Imwicked [people]H7563
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
אֵשֵֽׁב\׃'e.ShevI sitH3427

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 26:5

  • Psalms 31:6

    I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.

  • Psalms 101:3-8

    I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. …

  • Psalms 139:21-22

    Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

  • Psalms 1:1

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

  • 1 Corinthians 5:9-11

    I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
hated.
31:6; 101:3-8; 139:21,22
will.
1:1; Mt 9:11,12; 1Co 5:9-11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 26:4

    I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

  • Psalms 26:5

    I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

  • Psalms 26:6

    I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:

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Psalms 26:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Aborrecí la reunión de los malignos, y con los impíos nunca me senté.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		J’ai haï la congrégation de ceux qui font le mal, et je ne m’assiérai pas avec les méchants.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ich habe die Versammlung der Übeltäter gehaßt, und bei Gesetzlosen saß ich nicht.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quoniam abscondit me in tabernaculo suo; in die malorum protexit me in abscondito tabernaculi sui.