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Psalms 109:15
15Lord, never forget his family's sins. May nobody on earth remember his family's name.
Psalms 109:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
- New International Version (NIV)May their sins always remain before the Lord, that he may blot out their name from the earth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Let them be continually before the Lord, That He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
Context of Psalms 109:15
13Remove all the descendants in his family. When his children die, may nobody remember his family any more! 14Lord, please remember his ancestors sins. Please do not forgive his mother's sins. Lord, never forget his family's sins. May nobody on earth remember his family's name. 16My enemy was never kind to anyone. He was cruel to poor, weak, and helpless people. He even caused them to die, 17He loved to curse people. Now may those curses happen to him! He never asked God to bless other people, so nobody will ask God to bless him!
Read all of Psalms 109Psalms 109:15 word by word
יִהְי֣וּ נֶֽגֶד־יְהוָ֣ה תָּמִ֑יד וְיַכְרֵ֖ת מֵאֶ֣רֶץ זִכְרָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 109:15
- Psalms 51:9Hide your face from my sins. Clean away all the bad things that I have done.
- Psalms 90:8All our sins are there for you to see. You even see the sins that we have tried to hide.
- Deuteronomy 32:34The Lord says, ‘I will not forget to punish Israel's enemies. I have already decided what I will do, and I will do it!
- Jeremiah 2:22You may use strong soap to make yourselves clean. But I still see the dirt of your sins.’ That is what the Almighty Lord says.
- Hosea 7:2They do not understand that I remember all their sins. The wicked things that they do are everywhere. Wherever they go, I see their sins very clearly.
- Amos 8:7The Lord has promised this: ‘You proud descendants of Jacob, I will never forget the wrong things that you have done.
- Psalms 109:13Remove all the descendants in his family. When his children die, may nobody remember his family any more!
- Psalms 34:16But the Lord turns against people who do evil things. He causes everybody to forget that they ever lived.
- Job 18:17Nobody remembers that he ever lived. They have forgotten his name.
- Isaiah 65:15My own people will use your names when they curse others. The Almighty Lord will kill you, but he will give to his servants another name.
Commentaries on Psalms 109:15
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Let them be before the Lord continually - Let their sins never pass from the mind of God. Let him never so forget them as not to inflict punishment for them. That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth - That they may be wholly forgotten among people. Let their very name perish; and let the offender in this case be in the condition of those who have no ancestors to whom they can refer with pride and pleasure. The idea here is drawn from the…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. 6-19The NLT translates these verses as the words of the psalmist’s accusers; Hebrew lacks They say, which makes it unclear who is speaking.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1514-15. Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered, &c.--Added to the terrible overthrow following his own sin, let there be the imputation of his parents' guilt, that it may now come before God, for His meting out its full consequences, in cutting off the memory of them (that is, the parents) from the earth (Psa 34:16).Read the comment
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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
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