As he cursed, Shimei said, ‘Get out, get out, you murderer, you scoundrel!
Psalm 26:9 - New International Version (Anglicised) Do not take away my soul along with sinners, my life with those who are bloodthirsty, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with bloody men: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Gather me not with sinners and sweep me not away [with them], nor my life with bloodthirsty men, American Standard Version (1901) Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood; Common English Bible Don’t gather me up with the sinners, taking my life along with violent people Catholic Public Domain Version Do not turn your face away from me. In your wrath, do not turn aside from your servant. Be my helper. Do not abandon me, and do not despise me, O God, my Saviour. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour. |
As he cursed, Shimei said, ‘Get out, get out, you murderer, you scoundrel!
During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the Lord. The Lord said, ‘It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death.’
If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Saviour, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay; the bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you.
And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.
He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
‘They also will answer, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or ill or in prison, and did not help you?”
‘Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.’
Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies he will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.