Psalms 109:17

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

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  • Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider will be filled with their own ways, but a good person will be satisfied with their deeds.
  • Ezek 35:6 : 6 therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will make you a land of bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For with the standard you use to judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-11 : 10 and with every kind of deceit targeting those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion, so that they will believe the lie,
  • Rev 16:6 : 6 For they shed the blood of your holy people and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.
  • Ps 52:4-5 : 4 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, you worker of deceit. 5 You love evil more than good, and falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
  • Ps 59:12-13 : 12 Do not kill them, Lord, or my people will forget. Scatter them by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield. 13 For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride. For the curses and lies they utter,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 109:18-20
    3 verses
    88%

    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.

    20Let this be the Lord's reward to my adversaries and to those who speak evil against me.

  • Ps 109:16
    78%

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

  • Ps 109:5-13
    9 verses
    76%

    5They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

    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.

    10May his children wander and beg, seeking food far from their ruined homes.

    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.

  • Ps 37:22
    75%

    22For those blessed by the LORD will inherit the land, but those cursed by Him will be cut off.

  • Ps 109:28
    75%

    28Though they curse, You will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice.

  • Ps 35:8
    74%

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

  • Lam 3:65
    74%

    65Give them hardness of heart; may Your curse be upon them.

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated when harm came to him—

    30I have not allowed my mouth to sin by invoking a curse against their life—

  • Prov 3:33
    72%

    33The LORD’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.

  • 2 Sam 16:11-13
    3 verses
    72%

    11David then said to Abishai and all his servants, "Look, my own son who came from my own body is trying to take my life. How much more now this Benjamite! Leave him alone; let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.

    12Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses I am receiving today.

    13So David and his men continued along the road, while Shimei kept pace with him on the hillside opposite, cursing and throwing stones and dirt at him.

  • Ps 10:3
    72%

    3For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the greedy man curses and spurns the Lord.

  • Ps 69:27
    72%

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

  • Job 3:8
    72%

    8Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled to rouse Leviathan.

  • Jer 20:14
    72%

    14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed.

  • Rom 3:14
    71%

    14Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.

  • Ps 140:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9Do not grant the desires of the wicked, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

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

  • Prov 6:15
    71%

    15Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant, he will be broken beyond healing.

  • Job 27:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22It hurls itself against him without mercy; he flees desperately from its power.

    23It claps its hands at him and hisses at him as he is driven away from his place.

  • Ps 59:12
    71%

    12Do not kill them, Lord, or my people will forget. Scatter them by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

  • Ps 62:4
    71%

    4How long will you assault a man? Would you all throw him down—like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?

  • Ps 7:16
    71%

    16They dig a pit and hollow it out, only to fall into the hole they have made.

  • Deut 28:20
    71%

    20The LORD will send curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil of your deeds, by which you have forsaken Me.

  • Prov 24:18
    71%

    18Otherwise, the LORD will see and disapprove, and He may turn His anger away from them.

  • Deut 29:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19The LORD will not be willing to forgive such a person. His anger and jealousy will burn against them, and every curse written in this scroll will fall on them. The LORD will blot out their name from under the heavens.

    20The LORD will single them out for disaster from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.

  • Prov 24:25
    70%

    25But it will go well with those who rebuke, and a blessing of goodness will come upon them.

  • Num 23:8
    70%

    8How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those the LORD has not denounced?

  • Jer 17:6
    70%

    6They will be like a shrub in the desert, dwelling in a parched place in the wilderness, in a land of salt where no one lives, and will not see when prosperity comes.

  • Ps 36:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking his iniquity will not be discovered or hated.

    4The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has stopped being wise and doing good.

  • Job 18:16-18
    3 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Ps 55:15
    70%

    15We used to share close communion together; we walked with the crowd in the house of God.

  • Job 27:7
    70%

    7May my enemy be like the wicked and my adversary like the unrighteous!