(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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  1. Genesis 49:6 lamed

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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(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

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

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

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

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Awake, (A)my glory!
Awake, lute and harp!
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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The thoughts of the righteous are right,
But the counsels of the wicked are 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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