13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
13 May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
13 May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
13 Chop down his family tree so that nobody even remembers his name.
13 Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
13 May all his offspring die. May his family name be blotted out in the next generation.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 109:13
Commentary on Psalm 109:6-20
(Read Psalm 109:6-20)
The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on some of his enemies, to warn others. When men reject the salvation of Christ, even their prayers are numbered among their sins. See what hurries some to shameful deaths, and brings the families and estates of others to ruin; makes them and theirs despicable and hateful, and brings poverty, shame, and misery upon their posterity: it is sin, that mischievous, destructive thing. And what will be the effect of the sentence, "Go, ye cursed," upon the bodies and souls of the wicked! How it will affect the senses of the body, and the powers of the soul, with pain, anguish, horror, and despair! Think on these things, sinners, tremble and repent.