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My soul, i.e. my life, as it is explained in the next clause. Do not bind me up in the same bundle, nor put me into the same accursed and miserable condition, with them. Seeing I have had so great an antipathy against them in the whole course of my life, Psa_26:4,5, let me not die their death; as Balaam on the contrary desired
to die the death of the righteous, Num_23:10. And seeing I have loved thy house and worship, and endeavoured to serve thee acceptably, not only with ceremonial cleanness, but with moral purity of heart and life, Psa_26:6-8, do not deal with me as thou wilt with those that are filled with ungodliness and unrighteousness; do not destroy me with them, the righteous with the wicked, Gen_18:23, but save me in the common calamity, as thou hast promised and used to do in like cases. The Hebrew word asaph, rendered gathering, is oft put for taking away, as Gen_30:23 Isa_4:1 Jer_8:13 16:5, and that by destruction and death, as 1Sa_15:6 Isa_57:1 Jer_8:13 Eze_34:29 Hos_4:3. The ground of which phrase may be either, because by death men’s souls or spirits are gathered and returned to God, Ecc_12:7, who had dispersed them all the world over; or because the several sorts of men, good and bad, which live here together promiscuously, are there severed, and all of one sort of them gathered together unto their fathers or peoples, as it is expressed, Gen_15:15 Num_20:24 2Ki_22:20: compare Heb_12:23.
With sinners; profligate and obstinate sinners, as the following words describe them, such being oft called sinners by way of eminency, as 1Sa_15:18 Psa_1:1 104:35 Isa_1:28 33:14.