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Psalm 69:28

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69:28May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living!51

Do not let their names be listed with the godly!52

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Footnotes

  1. 51 Heb “let them be wiped out of the scroll of the living.” The phrase the scroll of the living occurs only here in the OT. It pictures a scroll or census list containing the names of the citizens of a community. When an individual died, that person’s name was removed from the list. So this curse is a very vivid way of asking that the enemies die.
  2. 52 Heb “and with the godly let them not be written.” Do not let their names be listed with the godly. This curse pictures a scroll in which God records the names of his loyal followers. The psalmist makes the point that his enemies have no right to be included in this list of the godly.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;

let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

May they be blotted out of the book of life

and not be listed with the righteous.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Let them be erased from the book of life

and not be recorded with the righteous.

NLTNew Living Translation

Erase their names from the Book of Life;

don’t let them be counted among the righteous.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,

and let them not be recorded with the righteous.

KJV 1900King James Version

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,

And not be written with the righteous.