Psalms 109:18

Authorized King James Version (1611)

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 73:6 : 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.
  • Num 5:22 : 22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make [thy] belly to swell, and [thy] thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
  • Num 5:27 : 27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, [that], if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, [and become] bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
  • Job 20:12-16 : 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, [though] he hide it under his tongue; 13 [Though] he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 [Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
  • Job 20:20-23 : 20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. 21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. 23 ¶ [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.
  • Job 29:14 : 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.
  • Matt 26:24 : 24 ‹The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.›
  • Matt 27:3-5 : 3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What [is that] to us? see thou [to that]. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
  • Acts 1:18 : 18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
  • Acts 1:25 : 25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
  • Col 3:8 : 8 ¶ But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
  • Col 3:12 : 12 ¶ Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 ¶ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 109:16-17
    2 verses
    88%

    16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

    17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

  • Ps 109:19-20
    2 verses
    84%

    19Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

    20[Let] this [be] the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

  • Job 20:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14[Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned, [it is] the gall of asps within him.

    15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

  • Ps 109:7-11
    5 verses
    72%

    7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

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

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

    10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.

    11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

  • 14Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:

  • 8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Ps 109:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

    29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

  • 18By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

  • Job 33:19-21
    3 verses
    71%

    19¶ He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]:

    20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones [that] were not seen stick out.

  • 23¶ [When] he is about to fill his belly, [God] shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain [it] upon him while he is eating.

  • 28And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

  • Job 16:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

    14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

  • 16His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

  • 11His bones are full [of the sin] of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

  • 7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.

  • 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

  • 4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • 19And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

  • Ps 140:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9[As for] the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

    10Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

  • 8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

  • 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

  • 18¶ He [is] swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

  • Job 18:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction [shall be] ready at his side.

    13It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

  • 22¶ Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.

  • 65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

  • 22For [such as be] blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and [they that be] cursed of him shall be cut off.

  • 22And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make [thy] belly to swell, and [thy] thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

  • 22But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

  • 16His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

  • 7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • 18For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.

  • 6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.

  • 12[For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak.

  • 12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

  • 24Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

  • 31Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

  • 30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.