New King James Version
Psalms 109:9
9Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
Psalms 109:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
- New International Version (NIV)May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
- English Standard Version (ESV)May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
- New Living Translation (NLT)May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Context of Psalms 109:9
7When he is judged, let him be found guilty, And let his prayer become sin. 8Let his days be few, And let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow. 10Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places. 11Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor.
Read all of Psalms 109Psalms 109:9 word by word
יִֽהְיוּ־בָנָ֥יו יְתוֹמִ֑ים וְ֝אִשְׁתּוֹ אַלְמָנָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 109:9
- Exodus 22:24and My wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, And pour out their blood By the force of the sword; Let their wives become widows And bereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, Their young men be slain By the sword in battle.
- Lamentations 5:3We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows.
Commentaries on Psalms 109:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Let his children be fatherless, etc. - It is said that Judas was a married man, against whom this verse, as well as the preceding is supposed to be spoken; and that it was to support them that he stole from the bag in which the property of the apostles was put, and of which he was the treasurer.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Let his children be fatherless - Hebrew, “his sons.” This is what “always” occurs when a criminal who is a father is executed. It is one of the consequences of crime; and if the officer of justice does his duty, of course, the sons of such a man “must” be made fatherless. The prayer is, simply, that justice may be done, and all this is but an enumeration of what must follow from the proper execution of the laws. And his wife a widow - This implies no…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. 8-11Family members of people guilty of capital crimes sometimes died with the offender (Numbers 16:1–33; Joshua 7:1–25) or had their property taken away (1 Kings 21:13–16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-109-10. Let his family share the punishment, his children be as wandering beggars to prowl in their desolate homes, a greedy and relentless creditor grasp his substance, his labor, or the fruit of it, enure to strangers and not his heirs, and his unprotected, fatherless children fall in want, so that his posterity shall utterly fail.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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