Psalms 69:27 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Add iniquity, &c.— Or give, or permit, as the original word may be rendered. This sentence will be best translated according to the old version; Let them, or permit them to fall from one wickedness to another. It is not unusual with God, as a punishment of some great sin or sins, though not to infuse into men any malignity, yet by withdrawing his grace, and leaving them to themselves, to suffer them to commit more sins, and to be so far from being reformed, as daily to grow worse and worse; to be obdurate, and so, finally, never to enter into God's righteousness: i.e. into that way of justification, and obedience, which is required by him, and will be accepted of him; or into his mercy, as the original word frequently signifies, so as to be made partakers of it.