Psalms 26:5

I have hated the congregation of evildoers,.... That do harm to the persons, characters, or properties of men; and who meet together in bodies, to consult and form schemes to do mischief, and have…

I have hated - We have here the same evidence of his piety repeated in another and a stronger form. In the previous verse he had merely stated that he had not been found among that class of persons,…

It is probable that David penned this psalm when he was persecuted by Saul and his party, who, to give some colour to their unjust rage, represented him as a very bad man, and falsely accused him of…

I have hated R.V., I hate.

the congregation of evil doers Cp. Psa 22:16. Is there not a tacit contrast between the congregation which meets for its own evil purposes, and that which assembles for the…