Psalms 109:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:24 : 24 and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
  • Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
  • Lam 5:3 : 3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 109:10-19
    10 verses
    88%

    10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.

    11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

    12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

    13Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

    14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

    15Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

    16Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them] .

    17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

    18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.

    19Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

  • Ps 109:6-8
    3 verses
    86%

    6Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.

    7When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin.

    8Let his days be few; [And] let another take his office.

  • Jer 18:21
    77%

    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

  • Job 27:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

    15Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, And his widows shall make no lamentation.

  • Job 22:9
    75%

    9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Exod 22:24
    74%

    24and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Job 24:21
    74%

    21He devoureth the barren that beareth not, And doeth not good to the widow.

  • Ps 94:6
    74%

    6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.

  • Job 31:10
    73%

    10Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

  • Ps 69:22-25
    4 verses
    73%

    22Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap.

    23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake.

    24Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

    25Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents.

  • Jer 49:11
    73%

    11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

  • Job 31:8
    73%

    8Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

  • Isa 10:2
    73%

    2to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Deut 27:19
    72%

    19Cursed be he that wresteth the justice [due] to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Isa 9:17
    72%

    17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Ps 146:9
    71%

    9Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

  • Lam 5:3
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    3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Ps 35:8
    71%

    8Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

  • Job 18:16-19
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    71%

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

    19He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

  • Ps 55:15
    71%

    15Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • 1 Tim 5:9
    70%

    9Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,

  • Ps 113:9
    70%

    9He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [And to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.

  • Ps 137:9
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    9Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones Against the rock.

  • Hos 9:14
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    14Give them, O Jehovah--what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Mic 2:9
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    9The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.

  • Job 20:10
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    10His children shall seek the favor of the poor, And his hands shall give back his wealth.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
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    11Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

  • Jer 15:8
    69%

    8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

  • Job 5:4
    69%

    4His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:

  • Job 31:16
    69%

    16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Isa 13:16
    69%

    16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

  • Ps 69:27
    69%

    27Add iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness.