Psalms 69:26-29

69:26 For they harass ¹  the one whom you discipline; ² 

they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish. ³ 

69:27 Hold them accountable for all their sins! ⁴ 

Do not vindicate them! ⁵ 

69:28 May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! ⁶ 

Do not let their names be listed with the godly! ⁷ 

69:29 I am oppressed and suffering!

O God, deliver and protect me! ⁸ 

[69:26]  ¹ tn Or “persecute”; Heb “chase.”

[69:26]  ² tn Heb “for you, the one whom you strike, they chase.”

[69:26]  ³ tn Heb “they announce the pain of your wounded ones” (i.e., “the ones whom you wounded,” as the parallel line makes clear).

[69:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “place sin upon their sin.”

[69:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “let them not come into your vindication.”

[69:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “let them be wiped out of the scroll of the living.”

[69:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “and with the godly let them not be written.”

[69:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “your deliverance, O God, may it protect me.”