Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.
Parallel translations
- WEB Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
- KJV Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
- NKJV Add iniquity to their iniquity, And let them not come into Your righteousness.
- NASB Add guilt to their guilt, And may they not come into Your righteousness.
- NLT Pile their sins up high, and don’t let them go free.
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Quick answer
David asks God to add to his enemies' guilt and exclude them from his righteousness. It is a prayer that the unrepentant receive their due.
Overview
David prays that his persecutors be charged with their full guilt and shut out from acquittal. This reflects the principle that those who finally reject God's mercy are left to his justice. The verse soberly underscores that righteousness comes only by God's gift, and those who refuse it in Christ have no other standing before God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 21
- Neh 4:5Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
- Isa 26:10Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD.
- Rom 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Rev 22:10–11Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of prophecy in this book, because the time is near.
- 2 Th 2:11–12For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,
- Rom 10:2–3For I testify about them that they are zealous for God, but not on the basis of knowledge.
- 2 Tim 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did great harm to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.
- Lev 26:39Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
- Ps 81:12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
- Matt 23:31–32So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
- Ps 109:14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
- Exod 8:15When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.
- Matt 27:4–5“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said. “What is that to us?” they replied. “You bear the responsibility.”
- Exod 9:12But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said to Moses.
- Exod 8:32But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time as well, and he would not let the people go.
- Rom 9:31but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
- Rom 9:18Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
- Ps 109:17–19The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
- Ps 24:5He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from the God of his salvation.
- Isa 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- Matt 21:19Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.
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