Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
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.
A Conservative Version
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and 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!
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 Charge them with crime upon crime. Do not let them come into your righteousness. 28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. 29 But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
Cross References
Ezekiel 13:9
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, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Luke 10:20
Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven."
Philippians 4:3
Yes, I beg you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
Exodus 32:32-33
Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin?and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written."
Hebrews 12:23
to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Revelation 13:8
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
Isaiah 4:3
It will happen, 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 hidden from my eyes.
Hosea 1:9
He said, "Call his name Lo-Ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.
Revelation 20:12-15
I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Revelation 22:19
If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.