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Add guilt to their guilt, And may they not come into Your righteousness.
Psalms 69:27 · New American Standard Bible
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.
  • 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.
  • 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 4:5don’t cover their iniquity, and don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”
  • Isa 26:10Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.
  • Rom 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • Rev 22:10–11He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.
  • 2 Th 2:11–12Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
  • Rom 10:2–3For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
  • 2 Tim 4:14Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,
  • Lev 26:39Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
  • Ps 81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
  • Matt 23:31–32Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
  • Ps 109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
  • Exod 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
  • Matt 27:4–5saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”
  • Exod 9:12Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
  • Exod 8:32Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.
  • Rom 9:31but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
  • Rom 9:18So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
  • Ps 109:17–19Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
  • Ps 24:5He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.
  • Isa 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
  • Matt 21:19Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 69:27 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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