(A)Let not my soul enter their council;
Let not my honor be united (B)to their assembly;
(C)For in their anger they slew a man,
And in their self-will they [a]hamstrung an ox.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 49:6 lamed

Let me not enter their council,
    let me not join their assembly,(A)
for they have killed men in their anger(B)
    and hamstrung(C) oxen as they pleased.

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30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, (A)“You have (B)troubled me (C)by making me obnoxious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; (D)and since I am few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and kill me. I shall be destroyed, my household and I.”

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30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble(A) on me by making me obnoxious(B) to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land.(C) We are few in number,(D) and if they join forces against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

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(A)Do[a] not gather my soul with sinners,
Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

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  1. Psalm 26:9 Do not take away

Do not take away my soul along with sinners,
    my life with those who are bloodthirsty,(A)

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Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will [a]rest in hope.

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  1. Psalm 16:9 Or dwell securely

Therefore my heart is glad(A) and my tongue rejoices;
    my body also will rest secure,(B)

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14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For (B)what [a]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [b]communion has light with darkness?

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  1. 2 Corinthians 6:14 in common
  2. 2 Corinthians 6:14 fellowship

Warning Against Idolatry

14 Do not be yoked together(A) with unbelievers.(B) For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?(C)

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19 And I will say to my soul, (A)“Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; (B)eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

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19 And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

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17 (A)I did not sit in the assembly of the mockers,
Nor did I rejoice;
I sat alone because of Your hand,
For You have filled me with indignation.

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17 I never sat(A) in the company of revelers,
    never made merry with them;
I sat alone because your hand(B) was on me
    and you had filled me with indignation.

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Sorrow for the Doomed Nation

19 O my (A)soul, my soul!
I am pained in my very heart!
My heart makes a noise in me;
I cannot hold my peace,
Because you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.

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19 Oh, my anguish, my anguish!(A)
    I writhe in pain.(B)
Oh, the agony of my heart!
    My heart pounds(C) within me,
    I cannot keep silent.(D)
For I have heard the sound of the trumpet;(E)
    I have heard the battle cry.(F)

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Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked,
From the rebellion of the workers of iniquity,

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Hide me from the conspiracy(A) of the wicked,(B)
    from the plots of evildoers.

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Awake, (A)my glory!
Awake, lute and harp!
I will awaken the dawn.

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Awake, my soul!
    Awake, harp and lyre!(A)
    I will awaken the dawn.

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I have not (A)sat with idolatrous mortals,
Nor will I go in with hypocrites.
I have (B)hated the assembly of evildoers,
And will not sit with the wicked.

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I do not sit(A) with the deceitful,
    nor do I associate with hypocrites.(B)
I abhor(C) the assembly of evildoers
    and refuse to sit with the wicked.

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The thoughts of the righteous are right,
But the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

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The plans of the righteous are just,
    but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

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15 My son, (A)do not walk in the way with them,
(B)Keep your foot from their path;
16 (C)For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed blood.

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15 my son, do not go along with them,
    do not set foot(A) on their paths;(B)
16 for their feet rush into evil,(C)
    they are swift to shed blood.(D)

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