Psalms 109:10

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May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:25 : 25 I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.
  • Ps 59:15 : 15 They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.
  • Isa 16:2 : 2 At the fords of the Arnon the Moabite women are like a bird that flies about when forced from its nest.
  • Gen 4:12-14 : 12 When you try to cultivate the ground it will no longer yield its best for you. You will be a homeless wanderer on the earth.” 13 Then Cain said to the LORD,“My punishment is too great to endure! 14 Look! You are driving me off the land today, and I must hide from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth; whoever finds me will kill me.”
  • 2 Sam 3:29 : 29 May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab’s house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”
  • 2 Kgs 5:27 : 27 Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow.
  • Job 24:8-9 : 8 They are soaked by mountain rains and huddle in the rocks because they lack shelter. 9 The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge. 10 They go about naked, without clothing, and go hungry while they carry the sheaves. 11 They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty. 12 From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.
  • Job 30:3-9 : 3 gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste. 4 By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food. 5 They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves– 6 so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks. 7 They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles. 8 Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips. 9 Job’s Indignities“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

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    6Appoint an evil man to testify against him! May an accuser stand at his right side!

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  • Ps 109:11-19
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    11May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!

    12May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children!

    13May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!

    14May his ancestors’ sins be remembered by the LORD! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten!

    15May the LORD be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!

    16For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.

    17He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings.

    18He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.

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    14If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

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    21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

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    22May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

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    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

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    27Hold them accountable for all their sins! Do not vindicate them!