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Psalm 69:28 KJV
Psalms · chapter 69 · verse 28
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.Psalm 69:28 · King James Version
Psalm 69:28 in context
26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
27Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
29But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- blottedmâchâhproperly, to stroke or rubH4229 →
- writtenkâthabto grave, by implication, to writeH3789 →
- livingchayaliveH2416 →
- bookçêpherproperly, writingH5612 →
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These imprecations are not David's prayers against his enemies, but prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors, especially the Jewish nation, which our Lord himself foretold with tears, and which was accomplished about forty years after the death of Christ.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-29