Psalms 69:28

²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

²⁷ Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

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

²⁹ But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

³⁰ I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
KJV: Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
WEB: Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
ASV: Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.
DARBY: Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
BLB: May they be blotted out from the book of the living, and do not let them be written with the righteous!

ÅB: La dem bli utslettet av de levendes bok, og la dem ikke bli innskrevet med de rettferdige!
OTB: Måtte de bli strøket ut av livets bok,
Og måtte de ikke bli oppført med de rettferdige.
B1930: La dem bli utslettet av de levendes bok, og la dem ikke bli innskrevet med de rettferdige!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 32:32–33
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
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Philippians 4:3
And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
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Luke 10:20
Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
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Ezekiel 13:9
And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly 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 ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
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Revelation 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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Revelation 20:12–15
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
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Hebrews 12:23
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
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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 the things which are written in this book.
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