Psalms 69 · Verse 27

Psalms 69:27

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.
Psalms 69:27, King James Version

Psalms 69:27 in other translations

BSBAdd iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.
WEBCharge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
ASVAdd iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness.
YLTGive punishment for their iniquity, And they enter not into Thy righteousness.
DARBYAdd iniquity unto their iniquity, and let them not come into thy righteousness.
BBELet their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.
WebsterAdd iniquity to their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

What does Psalms 69:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 69:27-28
27-28. iniquity--or, "punishment of iniquity" (Psa 40:12). come ... righteousness--partake of its benefits.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 Add iniquity unto their iniquity - תנה עון על עונם tenah avon al avonam; give iniquity, that is, the reward of it, upon or for their iniquity. Or, as the original signifies perverseness, treat their perverseness with perverseness: act, in thy judgments, as crookedly towards them as they dealt crookedly towards thee. They shall get, in the way of punishment, what they have dealt out in the way of oppression.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 69:22-29

These are prophecies of the destruction of Christ's persecutors. Verses #(22-23), are applied to the judgments of God upon the unbelieving Jews, in Ro 11:9, 10. When the supports of life and delights of sense, through the corruption of our nature, are made the food and fuel of sin, then our table is a snare. Their sin was, that they would not see, but shut their eyes against the light, loving darkness rather; their…

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Psalms 69:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

תְּֽנָה\־te.nah-put !H5414
עָ֭וֹן'A.voniniquityH5771
עַל\־'al-toH5921
עֲוֹנָ֑ם'a.vo.Naminiquity theirH5771
וְאַל\־ve.'al-and may notH408
יָ֝בֹ֗אוּya.Vo.'uthey comeH935
בְּצִדְקָתֶֽךָ\׃be.tzid.ka.Te.chain righteousness yourH6666

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 69:27

  • Isaiah 26:10

    Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

  • Nehemiah 4:5

    And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

  • Romans 1:28

    And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

  • Revelation 22:10-11

    And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

    And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

  • 2 Timothy 4:14

    Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

  • Romans 10:2-3

    For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

  • Psalms 109:14

    Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

  • Romans 9:18

    Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.

  • Exodus 9:12

    And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.

  • Matthew 23:31-32

    Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

  • Leviticus 26:39

    And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Add.
81:12; Ex 8:15,32; 9:12; Le 26:39; Isa 5:6; Mt 21:19; 23:31,32
Mt 27:4,5; Ro 1:28; 9:18; 2Th 2:11,12; Re 22:10,11
iniquity. or, punishment of iniquity.
109:17-19; 2Ti 4:14
let them.
24:5; Isa 26:10; Ro 9:31; 10:2,3

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Context

  • Psalms 69:26

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

  • Psalms 69:27

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

  • Psalms 69:28

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

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Psalms 69:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Pon maldad sobre su maldad, y no entren en tu justicia.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car ils persécutent celui que toi tu as frappé, et parlent pour la douleur de ceux que tu as blessés.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Füge Ungerechtigkeit zu ihrer Ungerechtigkeit, und laß sie nicht kommen zu deiner Gerechtigkeit!