Psalms 109:10

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May his children wander and beg, seeking food far from their ruined homes.

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  • Ps 37:25 : 25 I was young, and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging for bread.
  • Ps 59:15 : 15 They return at evening, snarling like dogs as they prowl the city.
  • Isa 16:2 : 2 Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.
  • Gen 4:12-14 : 12 'When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.' 13 Cain said to the LORD, 'My punishment is more than I can bear.' 14 'Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.'
  • 2 Sam 3:29 : 29 May the guilt fall upon Joab and his entire family! May they always be afflicted with a discharge, skin disease, a need to rely on a crutch, death by the sword, or lack of bread.'
  • 2 Kgs 5:27 : 27 Naaman’s leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.' Then Gehazi went out from Elisha's presence, leprous, as white as snow.
  • Job 24:8-9 : 8 They are drenched by the mountain rains and embrace the rocks for lack of shelter. 9 They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge. 10 They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry. 11 They press oil between the rows, they tread the wine presses, yet they go thirsty. 12 From the city, the dying groan, and the life of the wounded cries out, but God does not regard their folly.
  • Job 30:3-9 : 3 They are gaunt from poverty and hunger; they gnaw the dry ground in desolate wastelands. 4 They pluck salt herbs from the bush, and the roots of broom trees are their food. 5 They are driven out from among society, and people shout at them as if they were thieves. 6 They dwell in the dry streambeds, in holes in the ground, and among the rocks. 7 Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together. 8 They are sons of fools, nameless men, driven out from the land. 9 And now I have become their taunt; I am a byword among them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 109:6-9
    4 verses
    88%

    6Appoint a wicked person over him, and let an accuser stand at his right hand.

    7When he is judged, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer become sin.

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

    9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

  • Ps 109:11-19
    9 verses
    86%

    11May a creditor seize all he owns, and may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

    12Let there be no one to show him kindness, and no one to be gracious to his fatherless children.

    13May his descendants be cut off, and may their name be wiped out in the next generation.

    14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and may the sin of his mother not be blotted out.

    15May their sins always remain before the Lord, and may He cut off their memory from the earth.

    16Because he did not remember to show kindness but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted to their death.

    17He loved to curse—may it come back to him; he took no delight in blessing—may it be far from him.

    18He clothed himself with cursing as with his garment; it seeped into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

    19May it be like a robe wrapped around him, like a belt tied around him always.

  • 14If his children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring will not have enough bread.

  • 10His children will seek the favor of the poor, and his hands will return his wealth.

  • Jer 18:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.

    22Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring a raiding party upon them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet.

  • Ps 69:22-25
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    75%

    22They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

    23Let their table before them become a snare, and their security a trap.

    24Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their bodies always shake and tremble.

    25Pour out your indignation on them, and let your fierce anger overtake them.

  • Job 5:4-5
    2 verses
    75%

    4His children are far from safety; they are crushed at the gate with no one to deliver them.

    5The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

  • 15They return at evening, snarling like dogs as they prowl the city.

  • Job 18:16-19
    4 verses
    73%

    16His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the public square.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

    19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, nor any survivor where he once lived.

  • 8then may I sow, but another eat, and may my offspring be uprooted.

  • 2They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

  • 10"Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever."

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.

    10They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

  • 8May destruction come upon them unawares. May the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into their own trap.

  • 9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

  • 10The wicked will see it and be angry; they will gnash their teeth and melt away. The desires of the wicked will perish.

  • 6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

  • 21Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the iniquity of their fathers. Let them not rise to possess the land or fill the face of the earth with cities.

  • 41You have broken through all his walls; you have reduced his strongholds to ruins.

  • 10You will make them like a fiery furnace in the time of Your presence; the LORD will swallow them in His anger, and fire will consume them.

  • 28he will dwell in desolated cities, in houses no one inhabits, destined to become ruins.

  • 17For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns. It sets the thickets of the forest ablaze, and they roll upward in columns of smoke.

  • 19Cursed is anyone who denies justice to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • 10May the heads of those who surround me be covered with the trouble their lips have caused.

  • 2In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted; let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

  • 14By your hand, Lord, save me from people of this world whose reward is in this life. Fill their bellies with what you have stored up; let their children be satisfied, and let them leave their wealth to their little ones.

  • 20My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are broken. My children have left me—they are no more. There is no one to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

  • 30I will establish his offspring forever and his throne as the days of the heavens.

  • 12Hunger consumes his strength, and calamity is ready at his side.

  • 27For they persecute those you have struck, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.