Psalms 109:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Because that he hath not remembered to do kindness, And pursueth the poor man and needy, And the smitten of heart -- to slay,

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 34:18 : 18 Near `is' Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.
  • Ps 37:14 : 14 A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.
  • Ps 37:32 : 32 The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.
  • Ps 69:20-29 : 20 Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none. 21 And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar. 22 Their table before them is for a snare, And for a recompence -- for a trap. 23 Darkened are their eyes from seeing, And their loins continually shake Thou. 24 Pour upon them Thine indignation, And the fierceness of Thine anger doth seize them. 25 Their tower is desolated, In their tents there is no dweller. 26 For they have pursued him Thou hast smitten, And recount of the pain of Thy pierced ones. 27 Give punishment for their iniquity, And they enter not into Thy righteousness. 28 They are blotted out of the book of life, And with the righteous are not written. 29 And I `am' afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.
  • Matt 5:7 : 7 `Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness.
  • Matt 18:33-35 : 33 did it not behove also thee to have dealt kindly with thy fellow-servant, as I also dealt kindly with thee? 34 `And having been wroth, his lord delivered him to the inquisitors, till he might pay all that was owing to him; 35 so also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.'
  • Matt 27:35-46 : 35 And having crucified him, they divided his garments, casting a lot, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the prophet, `They divided my garments to themselves, and over my vesture they cast a lot;' 36 and sitting down, they were watching him there, 37 and they put up over his head, his accusation written, `This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.' 38 Then crucified with him are two robbers, one on the right hand, and one on the left, 39 and those passing by were speaking evil of him, wagging their heads, 40 and saying, `Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building `it', save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.' 41 And in like manner also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 `Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him; 43 he hath trusted on God, let Him now deliver him, if He wish him, because he said -- Son of God I am;' 44 with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with him, were reproaching him. 45 And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour, 46 and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, `Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'
  • Mark 14:34-36 : 34 and he saith to them, `Exceeding sorrowful is my soul -- to death; remain here, and watch.' 35 And having gone forward a little, he fell upon the earth, and was praying, that, if it be possible the hour may pass from him, 36 and he said, `Abba, Father; all things are possible to Thee; make this cup pass from me; but, not what I will, but what Thou.'
  • Jas 2:13 : 13 for the judgment without kindness `is' to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
  • Gen 42:21 : 21 And they say one unto another, `Verily we `are' guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul, in his making supplication unto us, and we did not hearken: therefore hath this distress come upon us.'
  • 2 Sam 16:11-12 : 11 And David saith unto Abishai, and unto all his servants, `Lo, my son who came out of my bowels is seeking my life, and also surely now the Benjamite; leave him alone, and let him revile, for Jehovah hath said `so' to him; 12 it may be Jehovah doth look on mine affliction, and Jehovah hath turned back to me good for his reviling this day.'
  • 2 Sam 17:1-2 : 1 And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, `Let me choose, I pray thee, twelve thousand men, and I arise and pursue after David to-night, 2 and come upon him, and he weary and feeble-handed, and I have caused him to tremble, and all the people have fled who `are' with him, and I have smitten the king by himself,
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words? 3 These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me --
  • Job 19:21-22 : 21 Pity me, pity me, ye my friends, For the hand of God hath stricken against me. 22 Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
  • Ps 10:2 : 2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.
  • Ps 10:14 : 14 Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave `it', Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 109:17
    78%

    17And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.

  • Ps 9:12
    77%

    12For He who is seeking for blood Them hath remembered, He hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

  • Ps 109:15
    77%

    15They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

  • Ps 109:22
    76%

    22For I `am' poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.

  • Ps 109:9-13
    5 verses
    76%

    9His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.

    10And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

    11An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour.

    12He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans.

    13His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.

  • Job 20:19
    75%

    19For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

  • Ps 10:8-11
    4 verses
    75%

    8He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

    9He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

    10He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

    11He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

  • Ps 10:2
    74%

    2Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

  • Prov 14:31
    74%

    31An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

  • Ps 37:14
    74%

    14A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

  • Ps 69:26
    74%

    26For they have pursued him Thou hast smitten, And recount of the pain of Thy pierced ones.

  • Ps 9:18
    73%

    18For not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.

  • Job 30:25
    73%

    25Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

  • Prov 14:21
    73%

    21Whoso is despising his neighbour sinneth, Whoso is favouring the humble, O his happiness.

  • Job 22:9
    73%

    9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

  • Isa 10:2
    73%

    2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

  • Ps 94:6
    73%

    6Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.

  • Isa 9:17
    72%

    17Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one `is' profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

  • Ps 72:13
    72%

    13He hath pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he saveth,

  • Lam 3:43
    72%

    43Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain -- Thou hast not pitied.

  • Job 36:6
    72%

    6He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;

  • Ps 55:3
    72%

    3Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.

  • Ps 41:1
    71%

    1To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

  • Ps 10:13-15
    3 verses
    71%

    13Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'

    14Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave `it', Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

    15Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

  • Jer 22:16
    71%

    16He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then `it is' well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

  • Jer 18:23
    71%

    23And Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast known, All their counsel against me `is' for death, Thou dost not cover over their iniquity, Nor their sin from before Thee blottest out, And they are made to stumble before Thee, In the time of Thine anger work against them!

  • Ps 35:15
    71%

    15And -- in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;

  • Prov 29:7
    71%

    7The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

  • Job 31:29
    71%

    29If I rejoice at the ruin of my hater, And stirred up myself when evil found him,

  • Isa 14:6
    71%

    6He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!

  • Ps 69:20
    71%

    20Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.

  • Ps 82:3
    71%

    3Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.

  • Job 24:21
    71%

    21Treating evil the barren `who' beareth not, And `to' the widow he doth no good,

  • Ps 77:9
    71%

    9Hath God forgotten `His' favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.

  • Ps 109:20
    71%

    20This `is' the wage of mine accusers from Jehovah, And of those speaking evil against my soul.

  • Isa 57:17
    71%

    17For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding -- and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart.

  • Prov 11:17
    71%

    17A kind man is rewarding his own soul, And the fierce is troubling his own flesh.

  • Ps 109:7
    71%

    7In his being judged, he goeth forth wicked, And his prayer is for sin.

  • Ps 71:11
    71%

    11Saying, `God hath forsaken him, Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.'

  • Job 34:28
    71%

    28To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.

  • Ps 143:3
    71%

    3For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.