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Psalm 69:27
Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
27Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness.
28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
29But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me.
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The plea to charge persecutors with crime upon crime reaches beyond relief, asking God to exclude them from his righteousness.
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Nehemiah 4:5Don’t cover their iniquity. Don’t let their sin be blotted out from before you; for they have insulted the builders.”Both prayers ask God to keep wrongdoing charged against those who have harmed others, without covering or removing their guilt.
Isaiah 26:10Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see the LORD’s majesty.Righteousness is central to both: the psalm asks for exclusion from it, while Isaiah describes the wicked refusing to learn it despite favor.
Romans 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;Both concern God’s judgment: the psalm asks for exclusion from righteousness, while Romans describes God giving people over after they reject knowledge of him.
Revelation 22:10–11He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.The connection is weak: Revelation’s command to leave prophecy unsealed has no clear shared theme with this plea to charge persecutors with guilt.
2 Thessalonians 2:11–12Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,Both concern divine judgment: the psalm asks God to charge guilt, while Thessalonians describes God sending delusion so people believe a lie.
2 Timothy 4:14Alexander the coppersmith did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds.Both place wrongdoing before God for judgment: the psalm asks him to charge crimes, and Paul says the Lord will repay Alexander’s deeds.
Romans 10:2–3For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.The connection is limited: Romans speaks of zeal for God without knowledge, while the psalm asks God to judge persecutors.
Exodus 9:12The LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses.Both concern God acting against people: the psalm requests exclusion from righteousness, while Exodus describes God hardening Pharaoh’s heart.
Exodus 8:15But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as the LORD had spoken.The connection is limited: Pharaoh hardens his own heart, while the psalm asks God to act against those charged with crimes.
Romans 9:18So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.Both place the outcome in God’s hands: the psalm petitions him for exclusion, and Romans speaks of his freedom in mercy and hardening.
Psalm 81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.Both concern God withholding help toward righteousness: one asks for exclusion, while the other describes God letting people follow their stubborn hearts.
Matthew 23:31–32Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.Both passages name wrongdoing against others: the psalm charges persecutors with crimes, while Jesus identifies his hearers as descendants of those who killed prophets.
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These are a wounded person’s words asking God for judgment and exclusion. The prayer entrusts the case to God; it grants no authority to carry out revenge.
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