Psalms 109:9

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:24 : 24 If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.
  • Jer 18:21 : 21 So 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.
  • Lam 5:3 : 3 We have become orphans, without a father; our mothers are like widows.

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  • Ps 109:10-19
    10 verses
    88%

    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.

    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.

  • Ps 109:6-8
    3 verses
    86%

    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.

  • Jer 18:21
    77%

    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.

  • Job 27:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

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

    15His survivors will be buried in death, and his widows will not weep for them.

  • Job 22:9
    75%

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

  • Exod 22:24
    74%

    24If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.

  • Job 24:21
    74%

    21He preys on the barren woman who does not bear children, and he does no good to the widow.

  • Ps 94:6
    74%

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

  • Job 31:10
    73%

    10then may my wife grind grain for another, and may others kneel over her.

  • Ps 69:22-25
    4 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Jer 49:11
    73%

    11Leave your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in me.

  • Job 31:8
    73%

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

  • Isa 10:2
    73%

    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.

  • Deut 27:19
    72%

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

  • Isa 9:17
    72%

    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.

  • Ps 146:9
    71%

    9The LORD protects the sojourners; he sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the way of the wicked.

  • Lam 5:3
    71%

    3We have become orphans, without a father; our mothers are like widows.

  • Ps 35:8
    71%

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

  • Job 18:16-19
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    71%

    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.

  • Ps 55:15
    71%

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

  • 1 Tim 5:9
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    9A widow should be enrolled only if she is at least sixty years old and has been faithful to one husband,

  • Ps 113:9
    70%

    9He gives the barren woman a home, making her a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!

  • Ps 137:9
    70%

    9Blessed is the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rock.

  • Hos 9:14
    70%

    14Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

  • Mic 2:9
    69%

    9You drive the women of my people out of their pleasant homes. You take away my splendor from their children forever.

  • Job 20:10
    69%

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

  • 2 Sam 12:11
    69%

    11This is what the Lord says: 'Look, I am going to bring disaster upon you from within your own household. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to someone close to you, who will sleep with them in broad daylight.

  • Jer 15:8
    69%

    8Their widows have increased to Me more than the sand of the seas. I have brought against them a destroyer at noon, and I have caused anguish and terror to fall upon the city suddenly.

  • Job 5:4
    69%

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

  • Job 31:16
    69%

    16If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Isa 13:16
    69%

    16Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.

  • Ps 69:27
    69%

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