Psalms 109:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:14 : 14 The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.
  • Ezek 35:6 : 6 Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-11 : 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved. 11 Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.
  • Rev 16:6 : 6 because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets, so you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!”
  • Ps 52:4-5 : 4 You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives. 5 Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living.(Selah)
  • Ps 59:12-13 : 12 They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak! 13 Angrily wipe them out! Wipe them out so they vanish! Let them know that God rules in Jacob and to the ends of the earth!(Selah)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 109:18-20
    3 verses
    88%

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

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

    20May the LORD repay my accusers in this way, those who say evil things about me!

  • Ps 109:16
    78%

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

  • Ps 109:5-13
    9 verses
    76%

    5They repay me evil for good, and hate for love.

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

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

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

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

    10May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

    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!

  • Ps 37:22
    75%

    22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

  • Ps 109:28
    75%

    28They curse, but you will bless. When they attack, they will be humiliated, but your servant will rejoice.

  • Ps 35:8
    74%

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

  • Lam 3:65
    74%

    65Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them!

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him–

    30I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse–

  • Prov 3:33
    72%

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

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

    11Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants,“My own son, my very own flesh and blood, is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the LORD has spoken to him.

    12Perhaps the LORD will notice my affliction and this day grant me good in place of his curse.”

    13So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them.

  • Ps 10:3
    72%

    3Yes, the wicked man boasts because he gets what he wants; the one who robs others curses and rejects the LORD.

  • Ps 69:27
    72%

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

  • Job 3:8
    72%

    8Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

  • Jer 20:14
    72%

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

  • Rom 3:14
    71%

    14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

  • Ps 140:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9As for the heads of those who surround me– may the harm done by their lips overwhelm them!

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

  • Prov 6:15
    71%

    15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

  • Job 27:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

    23It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.

  • Ps 59:12
    71%

    12They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!

  • Ps 62:4
    71%

    4They spend all their time planning how to bring him down. They love to use deceit; they pronounce blessings with their mouths, but inwardly they utter curses.(Selah)

  • Ps 7:16
    71%

    16He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head.

  • Deut 28:20
    71%

    20Curses by Disease and Drought“The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

  • Prov 24:18
    71%

    18lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.

  • Deut 29:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says,“I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” This will destroy the watered ground with the parched.

    20The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory.

  • Prov 24:25
    70%

    25But there will be delight for those who convict the guilty, and a pleasing blessing will come on them.

  • Num 23:8
    70%

    8How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the LORD has not denounced?

  • Jer 17:6
    70%

    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

  • Ps 36:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

    4He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

  • Job 18:16-18
    3 verses
    70%

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

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

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

  • Ps 55:15
    70%

    15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

  • Job 27:7
    70%

    7The Condition of the Wicked“May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous.