Psalms 69:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. ”

• Psalms 69:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living - That is, Let them cease to live; let them not be numbered among living people; let them be cut off. This language is taken from the custom of r...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Let them be blotted out of the (x) book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. (x) They who seemed by their profession to have been written in your book, yet by their fruits prove the...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  LXIX. A Prayer for Deliverance and Revenge. The author was a pious Jew, burning with zeal for the purity of the Temple worship ( Psalms 69:9 ). He was a representative man, so that the reproaches o...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the living . life. See note on Leviticus 18:5 .

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• Psalms 69:28 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  28. Let them be blotted out from the book of the living. (95) This is the last imprecation, and it is the most dreadful of the whole; but it nevertheless uniformly follows the persevered in...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. Let them be blotted out - They shall be blotted out from the land of the living. They shall be cut off from l...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Let them be blotted out of the book— This means no more than that they should be cut off, and die before the usual time. We have before observed, that God is sometimes represented as recording and...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living. All the Israelites who came up out of Egypt were p...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  This whole Ps. should be compared with Psalms 22:31 , 35, 38,, 40. It is the prayer of one who is in deep distress, wrongfully persecuted by enemies, and conscious that, though he is sinful, his suf...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  It is doubtful whether these verses give the talk of the enemies just mentioned, or whether the psalmist himself, after a pause, resumes his imprecations. The former supposition certainly adds a fres...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 69:1-36 THE Davidic authorship of this psalm is evidently untenable, if for no other reason, yet because of the state of things presupposed in Psalms 69:35 . The supposition that Jeremiah...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Jehovah Heareth the Needy” Psalms 69:18-36 In Psalms 69:19-21 the psalmist again spreads out his griefs before God. He had looked for pity, but his foes only aggravated his sufferings. Both...

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• Psalms 69:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Perhaps in no psalm in the whole psalter is the sense of sorrow profounder or more intense than in this. The soul of the singer pours itself out in unrestrained abandonment to the overwhelming and te...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  We may accept these verses as so many expressions of prophecy, which were literally fulfilled, as our Lord elsewhere predicted, in the siege and overthrow of Jerusalem, about forty years after the as...

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• Psalms 69:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Let them be blotted out of the book of life ,.... Which some understand of this animal life, or of the catalogue of living saints; of their being not written among the living in Jerusalem, or in the...

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• Psalms 69:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous. Ver. 28. Let them be blotted out, &c. ] Wherein they were never indeed written among those living in J...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Let them be blotted out of the book of the living “Let them be cut off before their time, and enjoy none of the blessings which thou hast promised to the righteous.” Bishop Patrick. The psalmist is...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Pleading with God; Prophetic Imprecations.       22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have b...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of the living; or, of life : either, 1. Of this life. Out of the number of living men; which anciently used to be written in catalogues, out of which the names of those who died were blotted. Or...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, a Psalm of David.” “ To the chief musician .” See the introduction to Psalms 57 . “ Upon Shoshannim . See the introduction to...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Chaldee paraphrase ascribes this psalm to David, and with great care regards it as highly prophetic of the Messiah. St. Paul therefore knew the high authority he had, in quoting it against the Je...

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• Psalms 69:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But as for me, my prayer is unto Thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time. The compassionable, commendable, and censurable I. The compassionable. The representation which the author here gives of hi...

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• Psalms 69:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THIS is the cry of one suffering severely from men, partly on account of his own sins ( Psalms 69:5 ), but mainly for the sake of God ( Psalms 69:7-19 ). It is said to be "written i...

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• Psalms 69:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Plea for Vengeance

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• Psalms 69:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 32:32 ; Exodus 32:33 ; Ezekiel 13:9 ; Hebrews 12:23 ; Hosea 1:9 ; Isaiah 4:3 ; Isaiah 65:16 ; Luke 10:20 ; Philippians 4:3 ; Revelation 13:8 ; Revelation 20:12-15 ; Revelation 22:1...

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• Psalms 69:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Living — Of eternal life.

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