Don’t take away their guilt or forgive the sins they have done in your sight. They have insulted and discouraged the builders.”
Psalm 69:27 - Easy To Read Version Punish them for the bad things they did.\par Don’t show them how good you can be.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Add iniquity unto their iniquity: And let them not come into thy righteousness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let one [unforgiven] perverseness and iniquity accumulate upon another for them [in Your book], and let them not come into Your righteousness or be justified and acquitted by You. American Standard Version (1901) Add iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness. Common English Bible Pile guilt on top of their guilt! Don’t let them come into your righteousness! |
Don’t take away their guilt or forgive the sins they have done in your sight. They have insulted and discouraged the builders.”
Why do you persecute me like God does?\par Don’t you get tired of hurting me?\par
I hope the Lord is reminded of the sins\par of my enemy’s father.\par And I hope his mother’s sins\par are never erased.\par
Good people ask the Lord\par to bless other people.\par Those good people ask God, their Savior,\par to do good things.\par
So I let them do what they wanted to do.\par Israel did anything they wanted to do.\par
Pharaoh saw that they were free of the frogs, and he again became stubborn. Pharaoh did not do what Moses and Aaron had asked him to do. This happened just like the Lord had said.
But the Lord made Pharaoh stubborn. So Pharaoh refused to listen to Moses and Aaron. This happened just like the Lord had said.
An evil person will not learn to do good\par if you show him only kindness.\par An evil person will do bad things,\par even if he lives in a good world.\par That evil person might never see\par the Lord’s greatness.\par
I will make my vineyard {\cf2\super [47]} an empty field.\par No person will care for the plants.\par No person will work in the field.\par Weeds and thorns will grow there.\par I will command the clouds\par not to rain on the field.”\par
But he took our troubles and made them his. He bore our pain, and we thought God was punishing him. We thought God beat him \{for something he did\}.
So the survivors [450] will rot away in their sin in their enemies’ countries. They will rot away in their sins just like their ancestors [451] did.
Jesus saw a fig tree beside the road. Jesus went to the fig tree \{to get a fig to eat\}. But there were no figs on the tree. There were only leaves. So Jesus said to the tree, “You will never again have fruit!” And then the tree dried up and died.
People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed those people to have their own worthless thinking. And so those people do the things that they should not do.
So God shows mercy to the people he wants to show mercy to. And God makes the people stubborn that he wants to make stubborn.
And the people of Israel {\cf2\super [96]} tried to follow a law to make themselves right with God. But they did not succeed.
But you should continue following the teachings you learned. You know that those teachings are true. You know you can trust the people who taught you those things.