9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
9 Make orphans of his children, dress his wife in widow's weeds;
9 Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
9 May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
10 May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
10 Turn his children into begging street urchins, evicted from their homes - homeless.
10 Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.
10 May his children wander as beggars and be driven from their ruined homes.
(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.
14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
14 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!
14 But erect a memorial to the sin of his father, and make sure his mother's name is there, too -
14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
14 May the Lord never forget the sins of his fathers; may his mother's sins never be erased from the record.
(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.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 109:9
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.