Psalms 109:17

World English Bible (2000)

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 14:14 : 14 The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
  • Ezek 35:6 : 6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
  • Matt 7:2 : 2 For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-11 : 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
  • Rev 16:6 : 6 For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."
  • Ps 52:4-5 : 4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. 5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
  • Ps 59:12-13 : 12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter. 13 Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 109:18-20
    3 verses
    88%

    18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

    19 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

    20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

  • Ps 109:16
    78%

    16 because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

  • Ps 109:5-13
    9 verses
    76%

    5 They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

    6 Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.

    7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin.

    8 Let his days be few. Let another take his office.

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

    10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

    11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

    12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

    13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

  • Ps 37:22
    75%

    22 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Ps 109:28
    75%

    28 They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

  • Ps 35:8
    74%

    8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Lam 3:65
    74%

    65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

  • Job 31:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

    30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);

  • Prov 3:33
    72%

    33 Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

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

    11 David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

    12 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today."

    13 So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hillside opposite him, and cursed as he went, threw stones at him, and threw dust.

  • Ps 10:3
    72%

    3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

  • Ps 69:27
    72%

    27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.

  • Job 3:8
    72%

    8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

  • Jer 20:14
    72%

    14 Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

  • Rom 3:14
    71%

    14 "whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

  • Ps 140:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9 As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

    10 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

  • Prov 6:15
    71%

    15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • Job 27:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

    23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

  • Ps 59:12
    71%

    12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • Ps 62:4
    71%

    4 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 7:16
    71%

    16 The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

  • Deut 28:20
    71%

    20 Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

  • Prov 24:18
    71%

    18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

  • Deut 29:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."

    20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.

  • Prov 24:25
    70%

    25 but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.

  • Num 23:8
    70%

    8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

  • Jer 17:6
    70%

    6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

  • Ps 36:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

    4 He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

  • Job 18:16-18
    3 verses
    70%

    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

    17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

    18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Ps 55:15
    70%

    15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • Job 27:7
    70%

    7 "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.