Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
He wore curses like a garment may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil.
New American Standard Bible
And it
And like oil into his bones.
King James Version
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Holman Bible
let it enter his body like water
and go into his bones like oil.
A Conservative Version
He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.
American Standard Version
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.
Amplified
He clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it seeped into his inner self like water
And like [anointing] oil into his bones.
Bible in Basic English
He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
Darby Translation
And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones;
Julia Smith Translation
And he will put on cursing as his garment, and it shall come into his midst as water, and as oil into his bones.
King James 2000
As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it come into his body like water, and like oil into his bones.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter {his body} like water, and into his bones like oil.
Modern King James verseion
As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He clothed himself with cursing like as with a raiment: yea it went into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
NET Bible
He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.
New Heart English Bible
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
The Emphasized Bible
Because he clothed himself in cursing as his outer garment, therefore may it have entered like water into his inward part, and like oil into his bones;
Webster
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
World English Bible
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
Youngs Literal Translation
And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 109:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against An Enemy
17 He loved to curse may his curses return upon him! He took no delight in blessing others so may blessings be far from him. 18 He wore curses like a garment may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil. 19 May those curses wrap around him like a garment, or like a belt that one always wears.
Cross References
Numbers 5:22
and this water that brings a curse enters your abdomen, making it swell and your thigh waste away.' "Then the woman is to say "Amen.'
Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment.
Numbers 5:27
When he has had her drink the water, if she was defiled and had acted unfaithfully toward her husband, then the contaminated water that brings a curse will enter her and infect her, causing her abdomen to swell and her thigh to waste away. Then she is to be a cursed woman among her people.
Job 20:12-16
Though evil tastes sweet in his mouth, though he conceals it under his tongue,
Job 20:20-23
"Since his appetite won't quit; he won't let anything escape his lust.
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness like clothing; my just decisions were like a robe and a turban.
Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him. How terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."
Matthew 27:3-5
Then Judas, who had betrayed him, regretted what had happened when he saw that Jesus was condemned. He brought the 30 pieces of silver back to the high priests and elders,
Acts 1:18
(Now this man bought a field with the money he got for his crime. Falling on his face, he burst open in the middle, and all his intestines gushed out.
Acts 1:25
to serve in this office of apostle, from which Judas left to go to his own place."
Colossians 3:8
But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene speech, and all such sins.
Colossians 3:12
Therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
1 Peter 5:5
In a similar way, you young people must submit to the elders. All of you must clothe yourselves with humility for the sake of each other, because: "God opposes the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble."