Psalms 109:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּלְבַּ֥שׁ קְלָלָ֗ה כְּמַ֫דּ֥וֹ וַתָּבֹ֣א כַמַּ֣יִם בְּקִרְבּ֑וֹ וְ֝כַשֶּׁ֗מֶן בְּעַצְמוֹתָֽיו׃

Transliteration

And-wayyilbaš qəlālâ like-maddô and-wattābōʾ like-the-mayim in-qirbô and-like-the-šemen in-ʿaṣmôtāyw.

Grammar Details

*wayyilbaš*: verb, qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular with waw-consecutive - and he put on/clothed himself
*qəlālâ*: noun, feminine singular - curse
*maddô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his garment
*wattābōʾ*: verb, qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular with waw-consecutive - and it entered
*mayim*: noun, masculine plural - water
*qirbô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his inward parts
*šemen*: noun, masculine singular - oil
*ʿaṣmôtāyw*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his bones

Word Meanings

*maddô*: his garment/his measure/his clothing
*qirbô*: his inward parts/his midst/his inner being
*šemen*: oil/fat/richness

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 73:6 : 6 Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.
Num 5:22 : 22 and this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Amen, Amen.
Num 5:27 : 27 And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her [and become] bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
Job 20:12-16 : 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue, 13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth; 14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly. 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.
Job 20:20-23 : 20 Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth. 21 There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him. 23 When he is about to fill his belly, [God] will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon him, And will rain it upon him while he is eating.
Job 29:14 : 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
Matt 26:24 : 24 The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born.
Matt 27:3-5 : 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou [to it]. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
Acts 1:18 : 18 (Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
Acts 1:25 : 25 to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.
Col 3:8 : 8 but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:
Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

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