Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
New American Standard Bible
And may they not be
King James Version
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Holman Bible
and not be recorded with the righteous.
International Standard Version
May they be erased from the Book of Life, and their names not be written with the righteous.
American Standard Version
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.
Amplified
May they be blotted out of the book of life [and their lives come to an end]
And may they not be recorded with the righteous (those in right standing with God).
Bible in Basic English
Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.
Darby Translation
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
Julia Smith Translation
They shall be wiped off from the book of the living, and with the just they shall not be written.
King James 2000
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let them be blotted out of [the] book of [the] living, and let them not be recorded with [the] righteous.
Modern King James verseion
Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life, and not be written with the righteous.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let them be wiped out of the book of the living, and not be written among the righteous.
NET Bible
May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! Do not let their names be listed with the godly!
New Heart English Bible
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
The Emphasized Bible
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And, with the righteous, let them not be enrolled.
Webster
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
World English Bible
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
Youngs Literal Translation
They are blotted out of the book of life, And with the righteous are not written.
Themes
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 69:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Plea For Rescue
27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. 29 But I am poor and sorrowful. Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
Cross References
Ezekiel 13:9
And my hand shall be against the prophets who see FALSE visions, and who divine lies. They shall not be in the council of my people, nor shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the
Luke 10:20
Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are made subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in the heavens.
Philippians 4:3
Yes, I ask thee also, genuine yokefellow, help them--the women who labored with me in the good-news--with Clement also, and the rest of my co-workmen whose names are in the book of life.
Exodus 32:32-33
Yet now, if thou will forgive their sin--, and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou have written.
Hebrews 12:23
to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,
Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes, this man will be clothed in white garments, and I will, no, not erase his name out of the book of life. And I will acknowledge his name before my Father, and before his agents.
Revelation 13:8
And all who dwell upon the earth will worship it, whose name has not been written in the book of life of the Lamb who was killed from the foundation of the world.
Isaiah 4:3
And it shall come to pass, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem,
Isaiah 65:16
so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth, and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth. Because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
Hosea 1:9
And [LORD] said, Call his name Lo-ammi, for ye are not my people, and I will not be yours.
Revelation 20:12-15
And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the one of life. And the dead were judged from the things that were written in the books, accordi
Revelation 22:19
And if any man takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life, and from the holy city, the things written in this book.