Psalms 109:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 22:24 : 24 and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
  • Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.
  • Lam 5:3 : 3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

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  • Ps 109:10-19
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    88%

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

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

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

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

    14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

    15Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

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

    17Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

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

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

  • Ps 109:6-8
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    86%

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

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

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

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

  • Job 27:14-15
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    76%

    14If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

    15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.

  • Job 22:9
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    9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Job 24:21
    74%

    21He devours the barren who don't bear. He shows no kindness to the widow.

  • Ps 94:6
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    6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

  • Job 31:10
    73%

    10then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

  • Ps 69:22-25
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    22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

    23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

    24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

    25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

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    11Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.

  • Job 31:8
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    8then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

  • Deut 27:19
    72%

    19'Cursed is he who wrests the justice [due] to the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Isa 9:17
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    17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

  • Ps 146:9
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    9Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.

  • Lam 5:3
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    3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Ps 35:8
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    8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Job 18:16-19
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    16His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

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

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

    19He shall have neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining where he lived.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • 1 Tim 5:9
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    9Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

  • Ps 113:9
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    9He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

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    9Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock. By David.

  • Hos 9:14
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    14Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

  • Mic 2:9
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    9You drive the women of my people out from their pleasant houses; from their young children you take away my blessing forever.

  • Job 20:10
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    10His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

  • 2 Sam 12:11
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    11"This is what Yahweh says: 'Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he will lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.

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    8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.

  • Job 5:4
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    4His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

  • Job 31:16
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    16"If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Isa 13:16
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    16Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

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