Psalms 69:28 - Exposition

Let them be blotted out of the Book of the living. God is supposed to have a "book of the living" in his possession, which contains the names of all those on whom he looks with favour, and whom he will bless both in this world and beyond the grave (comp. Exodus 32:32 ; Psalms 86:6 ; Ezekiel 13:9 ; Daniel 12:1 ). From this list, as from any register of earthly citizenship, the names of the unworthy may be erased. David prays for the erasure of the names of those unworthy ones against whom his imprecations are uttered. And not be written with the righteous; i.e. not remain written in the book side by side with the names of the righteous. The New Testament, no less than the Old, tells of this book (see Luke 10:20 ; Philippians 4:3 ; Revelation 3:5 ; Revelation 13:8 ; Revelation 20:12 ; Revelation 21:27 ).