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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 109:6-9
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    6 Appoint an evil man to testify against him! May an accuser stand at his right side!

    7 When he is judged, he will be found guilty! Then his prayer will be regarded as sinful.

    8 May his days be few! May another take his job!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    19 May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, or a belt one wears continually!

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

  • 10 His sons must recompense the poor; his own hands must return his wealth.

  • Jer 18:21-22
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    21 So 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.

    22 Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

  • Ps 69:22-25
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    22 May their dining table become a trap before them! May it be a snare for that group of friends!

    23 May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!

    24 Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!

    25 May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

  • Job 5:4-5
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    4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

    5 The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.

  • 15 They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

  • Job 18:16-19
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    16 Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

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

    18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

    19 He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

  • 8 then let me sow and let another eat, and let my crops be uprooted.

  • 2 to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • 10 let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see, and make their backs bend continually.”

  • Job 24:9-10
    2 verses
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    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.

  • 8 Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

  • 9 you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.

  • 10 When the wicked see this, they will worry; they will grind their teeth in frustration and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.

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

  • 21 Prepare to execute his sons for the sins their ancestors have committed. They must not rise up and take possession of the earth, or fill the surface of the world with cities.”

  • 41 All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

  • 10 You destroy their offspring from the earth, their descendants from among the human race.

  • 28 he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

  • 17 So the Lord was not pleased with their young men, he took no pity on their orphans and widows; for the whole nation was godless and did wicked things, every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.

  • 19 ‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • 10 May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

  • 2 The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.

  • 14 LORD, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.

  • 20 But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.

  • 30 If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations,

  • 12 Calamity is hungry for him, and misfortune is ready at his side.

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