Psalms 109:13

Psalms 109:13 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
• New International Version (NIV)May his descendants be cut off, their names blotted out from the next generation.
• English Standard Version (ESV)May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
• New King James Version (NKJV)Let his posterity be cut off, And in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Context of Psalms 109:13

11Let a creditor seize all he has; let strangers plunder what he has worked for. 12Let no one show him kindness, and let no one be gracious to his fatherless children. Let the line of his descendants be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the next generation. 14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord, and do not let his mother’s sin be blotted out. 15Let their sins always remain before the Lord, and let him remove all memory of them from the earth.

Psalms 109:13 word by word

יְהִֽי־אַחֲרִית֥וֹ לְהַכְרִ֑ית בְּד֥וֹר אַ֝חֵ֗ר יִמַּ֥ח שְׁמָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Let his posterityאַחֲרִית'achărîyth · endH319
• be cut offכָּרַתkârath · to cut: eliminateH3772
• in the generationדּוֹרdôr dôr · generationH1755
• followingאַחֵר'achêr · anotherH312
• let their nameשֵׁםshêm · nameH8034
• be blotted outמָחָהmâchâh · to wipeH4229

Cross-references for Psalms 109:13

• Psalms 37:28For the Lord loves justice and will not abandon his faithful ones. They are kept safe forever, but the children of the wicked will be destroyed.
• 1 Samuel 2:31Look, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your forefather’s family, so that none in your family will reach old age.
• 1 Samuel 3:13I told him that I am going to judge his family forever because of the iniquity he knows about: his sons are cursing God, and he has not stopped them.
• 2 Kings 10:10Know, then, that not a word the Lord spoke against the house of Ahab will fail, for the Lord has done what he promised through his servant Elijah.”
• Job 18:19He has no children or descendants among his people, no survivor where he used to live.
• Isaiah 14:20You will not join them in burial, because you destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be mentioned again.
• Jeremiah 22:30This is what the Lord says: Record this man as childless, a man who will not be successful in his lifetime. None of his descendants will succeed in sitting on the throne of David or ruling again in Judah.
• Deuteronomy 9:14Leave me alone, and I will destroy them and blot out their name under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.’
• Deuteronomy 25:19When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven. Do not forget.
• Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will not be willing to forgive him. Instead, his anger and jealousy will burn against that person, and every curse written in this scroll will descend on him. The Lord will blot out his name under heaven,
• Proverbs 10:7The remembrance of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Commentaries on Psalms 109:13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Let his posterity be cut off - It is a fact that the distinction among the Jewish tribes in entirely lost. Not a Jew in the world knows from what tribe he is sprung; and as to the royal family, it remains nowhere but in the person of Jesus the Messiah. He alone is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Except as it exists in him, the name is blotted out.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13Let his posterity be cut off - To have a numerous posterity, to have the name and family perpetuated, was regarded among the Hebrews as one of the greatest and most desirable blessings. Hence, to pray that all one‘s family might be cut off was one of the severest forms of malediction which could be employed. And in the generation following - The very next generation. Let not his family be perpetuated at all. Let their name be blotted out - As a name is…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-20Verses 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13If one’s family name was blotted out, it meant there was no offspring to continue the family name or remember its history (see Proverbs 10:7).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. posterity--literally, "end," as in Psa 37:38, or, what comes after; that is, reward, or success, or its expectation, of which posterity was to a Jew a prominent part.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 109:13

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Prayer
• Wicked (People)

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Commentaries on Psalms 109

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings