Psalm 109:9-20

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Let his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.^(A)

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Let his children wander as beggars,
searching for food far^(a) from their demolished homes.^(B)

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Let a creditor seize all he has;
let strangers plunder what he has worked for.^(C)

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Let no one show him kindness,
and let no one be gracious to his fatherless children.^(D)

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Let the line of his descendants be cut off;
let their name be blotted out in the next generation.^(E)

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Let his ancestors’ guilt
be remembered before the Lord,^(F)
and do not let his mother’s sin be blotted out.^(G)

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Let their sins^(b) always remain before the Lord,
and let Him erase^(c) all memory of them from the earth.^(H)

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For he did not think to show kindness,
but pursued the afflicted, poor, and brokenhearted
in order to put them to death.^(I)

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He loved cursing—let it fall on him;
he took no delight in blessing—let it be far from him.^(J)

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He wore cursing like his coat—
let it enter his body like water
and go into his bones like oil.^(K)

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Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself,
like a belt he always wears.^(L)

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Let this be the Lord’s payment to my accusers,
to those who speak evil against me.^(M)

a. Psalm 109:10: LXX reads beggars, driven far

b. Psalm 109:15: Lit Let them

c. Psalm 109:15: Or cut off

A. Psalm 109:9: Exodus 22:24

B. Psalm 109:10: Job 30:5-8; Psalm 59:15

C. Psalm 109:11: Deuteronomy 28:43-44

D. Psalm 109:12: Job 5:4

E. Psalm 109:13: Job 18:17; Job 18:19; Psalm 9:5; Proverbs 10:7

F. Psalm 109:14: Exodus 20:5; Numbers 14:18

G. Psalm 109:14: Nehemiah 4:5; Jeremiah 18:23

H. Psalm 109:15: Psalm 34:16; Psalm 90:8; Jeremiah 16:17

I. Psalm 109:16: Psalm 34:18; Psalm 94:6

J. Psalm 109:17: Proverbs 14:14; Ezekiel 35:6; Matthew 7:2

K. Psalm 109:18: Numbers 5:22

L. Psalm 109:19: Psalm 73:26

M. Psalm 109:20: Psalm 54:5; Psalm 94:23; Isaiah 3:11