Psalms 109:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

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  • Ps 37:25 : 25 I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.
  • Ps 59:15 : 15 Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
  • Isa 16:2 : 2 For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.
  • Gen 4:12-14 : 12 No longer will the earth give you her fruit as the reward of your work; you will be a wanderer in flight over the earth. 13 And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength. 14 You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.
  • 2 Sam 3:29 : 29 May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!
  • 2 Kgs 5:27 : 27 Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.
  • Job 24:8-9 : 8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover. 9 The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt. 10 Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields. 11 Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes. 12 From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.
  • Job 30:3-9 : 3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land. 4 They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots. 5 They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves 6 They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks. 7 They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns. 8 They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land. 9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.

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  • Ps 109:6-9
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    88%

    6Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.

    7When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.

    8Let his life be short; let another take his position of authority.

    9Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

  • Ps 109:11-19
    9 verses
    86%

    11Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

    12Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.

    13Let his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.

    14Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

    15Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.

    16Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

    17As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

    18He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

    19Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.

  • Job 27:14
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    14If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.

  • Job 20:10
    77%

    10His children are hoping that the poor will be kind to them, and his hands give back his wealth.

  • Jer 18:21-22
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    75%

    21For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

    22Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

  • Ps 69:22-25
    4 verses
    75%

    22Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

    23Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

    24Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

    25Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.

  • Job 5:4-5
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    75%

    4Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

    5Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

  • Ps 59:15
    73%

    15Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

  • Job 18:16-19
    4 verses
    73%

    16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

    17His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

    18He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

    19He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

  • Job 31:8
    73%

    8Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

  • Isa 10:2
    73%

    2Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.

  • Rom 11:10
    73%

    10Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.

    10Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.

  • Ps 35:8
    72%

    8Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • Job 22:9
    72%

    9You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

  • Ps 112:10
    72%

    10The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

  • Isa 14:21
    72%

    21Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

  • Ps 89:41
    71%

    41All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

  • Ps 21:10
    71%

    10Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

  • Job 15:28
    71%

    28And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

  • Isa 9:17
    71%

    17For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Deut 27:19
    71%

    19Cursed is he who gives a wrong decision in the cause of a man from a strange land, or of one without a father, or of a widow. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Ps 140:10
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    10Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

  • Ps 17:14
    71%

    14With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

  • Jer 10:20
    71%

    20My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.

  • Ps 89:30
    71%

    30If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

  • Job 18:12
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    12His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.

  • Ps 69:27
    70%

    27Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.