Psalm 26:5 {25:5}
Good News Translation
I hate the company of the evil and avoid the wicked.

New Revised Standard Version
I hate the company of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

Contemporary English Version
or go with evil crowds.

New American Bible
I hate an evil assembly; with the wicked I do not sit.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.

hated

Psalm 31:6 Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:

Psalm 101:3-8 I will not set before my eyes any unjust thing: I hated the workers of iniquities. . . .

Psalm 139:21,22 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies? . . .

will

Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Matthew 9:11,12 And the Pharisees seeing it, said to his disciples: Why doth your master eat with publicans and sinners? . . .

1 Corinthians 5:9-11 I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators. . . .

Context
Vindicate Me, O LORD
4I have not sat with the council of vanity: neither will I go in with the doers of unjust things. 5I have hated the assembly of the malignant; and with the wicked I will not sit.6I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:…
Cross References
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Psalm 31:6
Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:

Psalm 139:21
Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?

Psalm 26:4
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