51:9 Hide your face 1 from my sins!
Wipe away 2 all my guilt!
69:28 May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! 3
Do not let their names be listed with the godly! 4
109:13 May his descendants 5 be cut off! 6
May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives! 7
1 sn In this context Hide your face from my sins means “Do not hold me accountable for my sins.”
2 tn See the note on the similar expression “wipe away my rebellious acts” in v. 1.
3 tn Heb “let them be wiped out of the scroll of the living.”
4 tn Heb “and with the godly let them not be written.”
5 tn Or “offspring.”
6 sn On the expression cut off see Ps 37:28.
7 tn Heb “in another generation may their name be wiped out.”