Psalms 26:5

“I have hated the congregation of evildoers, etc.] 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 their assemblies to encourage each other in it; these, their works and actions, the psalmist hated, though not their persons; and showed his displicency at them, and dislike and disapprobation of them, by absenting from them; (see <241517> Jeremiah 15:17); and will not sit with the wicked; ungodly and unrighteous men, sons of Belial; for with such what fellowship and concord can there be? (<470614>2 Corinthians 6:14,15); the word f416 signifies restless and uneasy persons, who cannot rest unless…”

“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, or that he had not made them his companions. He here says positively that he disapproved of their principles; that he hated the purpose for which they gathered themselves together; that he had no sympathy whatever with them. The congregation of evil-doers - All such assemblages as were gathered together for wicked purposes, for sin and revelry; to plot wickedness; to injure men; to oppose God. And will not sit with the wicked - That is, I will not be associated with them. This was the fixed…”

“hated: Psa 31:6, Psa 101:3-8, Psa 139:21, Psa 139:22 will: Psa 1:1; Mat 9:11, Mat 9:12; Co1 5:9-11 Psalms 26:6”