Psalm 69:28 {68:29}
Good News Translation
May their names be erased from the book of the living; may they not be included in the list of your people.

New Revised Standard Version
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

Contemporary English Version
Wipe their names from the book of the living; remove them from the list of the innocent.

New American Bible
May they be blotted from the book of life; not registered among the just!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.

blotted

Exodus 32:32,33 Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written. . . .

Isaiah 65:16 In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

Hosea 1:9 And he said: Call his name, Not my people: for you are not my people, and I will not be yours.

Revelation 3:5 He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments: and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. And I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Revelation 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these things that are written in this book.

be written

Isaiah 4:3 And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written in life in Jerusalem.

Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

Luke 10:20 But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you: but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.

Philippians 4:3 And I entreat thee also, my sincere companion, help those women who have laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Hebrews 12:23 And to the church of the firstborn who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.

Revelation 20:12-15 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne. And the books were opened: and another book was opened, which was the book of life. And the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works. . . .

Context
The Waters Are Up to My Neck
27Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice. 28Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.29But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.…
Cross References
Luke 10:20
But yet rejoice not in this, that spirits are subject unto you: but rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.

Luke 24:44
And he said to them: These are the words which I spoke to you while I was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled which are written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms, concerning me.

Philippians 4:3
And I entreat thee also, my sincere companion, help those women who have laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement and the rest of my fellow labourers, whose names are in the book of life.

Hebrews 12:23
And to the church of the firstborn who are written in the heavens, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of the just made perfect,

Revelation 3:5
He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments: and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life. And I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Revelation 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.

Revelation 17:8
The beast which thou sawest, was, and is not, and shall come up out of the bottomless pit and go into destruction. And the inhabitants on the earth (whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world) shall wonder, seeing the beast that was and is not.

Revelation 20:15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the pool of fire.

Exodus 32:32
Or if thou do not, strike me out of the book that thou hast written.

Exodus 32:33
And the Lord answered him: He that hath sinned against me, him will I strike out of my book:

Nehemiah 4:5
Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

Psalm 9:5
Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

Psalm 87:6
The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

Isaiah 4:3
And it shall come to pass, that every one that shall be left in Sion, and that shall remain in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, every one that is written in life in Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 13:9
And my hand shall be upon the prophets that see vain things, and that 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 land of Israel, and you shall know that I am the Lord God.

Psalm 69:27
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