Psalms 109:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Ps 73:6 : 6 For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.
  • Num 5:22 : 22 And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.
  • Num 5:27 : 27 And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.
  • Job 20:12-16 : 12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue; 13 Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth; 14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. 15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God. 16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.
  • Job 20:20-23 : 20 There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight. 21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end. 22 Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him. 23 God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.
  • Job 29:14 : 14 I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.
  • Matt 26:24 : 24 The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.
  • Matt 27:3-5 : 3 Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority, 4 Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business. 5 And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.
  • Acts 1:18 : 18 (Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 To take that position as a servant and Apostle, from which Judas by his sin was shut out, so that he might go to his place.
  • Col 3:8 : 8 But now it is right for you to put away all these things; wrath, passion, bad feeling, curses, unclean talk;
  • Col 3:12 : 12 As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 109:16-17
    2 verses
    88%

    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.

  • Ps 109:19-20
    2 verses
    84%

    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.

    20Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

  • Job 20:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

    15He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.

  • Ps 109:7-11
    5 verses
    72%

    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.

    10Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.

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

  • Rom 3:14
    72%

    14Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

  • 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.

  • Ps 109:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.

    29Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.

  • Job 30:18
    71%

    18With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

  • Job 33:19-21
    3 verses
    71%

    19Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;

    20He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

    21His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

  • Job 20:23
    71%

    23God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

  • Job 13:28
    71%

    28Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

  • Job 16:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

    14I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

  • Job 18:16
    71%

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

  • Job 20:11
    71%

    11His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • Ps 10:7
    70%

    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

  • Lam 3:16
    70%

    16By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

  • Lam 3:4
    70%

    4My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Deut 29:19
    70%

    19If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him:

  • Ps 140:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

    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.

  • Job 3:8
    70%

    8Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

  • Ps 22:14
    70%

    14I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

  • Job 24:18
    69%

    18They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

  • Job 18:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

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

    13His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

  • Ps 69:22
    69%

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

  • Lam 3:65
    69%

    65You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.

  • Ps 37:22
    69%

    22Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

  • Num 5:22
    69%

    22And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it.

  • Job 14:22
    69%

    22Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

  • Ps 7:16
    69%

    16His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

  • Job 18:7
    69%

    7The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

  • Isa 9:18
    69%

    18For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

  • Ps 73:6
    69%

    6For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

  • Ps 59:12
    69%

    12Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Prov 1:12
    69%

    12Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • Ps 69:24
    69%

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

  • Job 9:31
    69%

    31Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.

  • Job 31:30
    69%

    30(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)