69:28 May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! 4
Do not let their names be listed with the godly! 5
1 tn Heb “And any person.”
2 tn See HALOT 3 s.v. I אבד hif. Cf. KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “destroy”; CEV “wipe out.”
3 tn Heb “its people” (“its” is feminine to agree with “person,” literally “soul,” which is feminine in Hebrew; cf. v. 29).
4 tn Heb “let them be wiped out of the scroll of the living.”
5 tn Heb “and with the godly let them not be written.”
6 tn Heb “life.”