Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Parallel translations
- WEB Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
- BSB Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your 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 4:5And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
- Isa 26:10Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.
- Rom 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
- Rev 22:10–11And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
- 2 Th 2:11–12And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
- Rom 10:2–3For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
- 2 Tim 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
- Lev 26:39And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
- Ps 81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- Matt 23:31–32Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
- Ps 109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
- Exod 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
- Matt 27:4–5Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
- Exod 9:12And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
- Exod 8:32And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.
- Rom 9:31But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
- Rom 9:18Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
- Ps 109:17–19As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
- Ps 24:5He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
- Isa 5:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- Matt 21:19And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
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