Psalms 69:28
(69-29) Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
In Context
27(69-28) Add iniquity unto their iniquity; and let them not come into Thy righteousness.
29(69-30) But I am afflicted and in pain; let Thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Cross References
Isaiah 4:3And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written unto life in Jerusalem;
Ezekiel 13:9And My hand shall be against the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies; they shall not be in the council of My people, neither shall they be written in the register of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 69:23-30
Pleading with God; Prophetic Imprecations. 22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. 24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. 25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast… Read the whole commentary →