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, and may strangers plunder his labor. 12Let no one show him mercy, or take pity on his fatherless children. Let his posterity be cut off, and his name be blotted out in the next generation. 14May the guilt of his fathers be remembered before Adonai, the sin of his mother never blotted out. 15Let their sins be before Adonai continually, that He may cut off the 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 Adonai loves justice and does not abandon His godly ones. They will be preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked will be cut off.
• 1 Samuel 2:31Behold, the days are coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no one in your household will reach old age.
• 1 Samuel 3:13For I have told him that I am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity that he knew about, because his sons brought a curse on themselves yet he did not rebuke them.
• 2 Kings 10:10Know then that not a word of Adonai will fall to the earth—which Adonai spoke about the house of Ahab—for Adonai has done what He spoke through His servant Elijah.”
• Job 18:19He has no offspring or descendant among his people, no survivor where he once dwelt.
• Isaiah 14:20You will not join with them in burial, because you ruined your land, you slaughtered your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be named.
• Jeremiah 22:30Thus says Adonai: “Write this man childless, a man who will not prosper in his days. For no man of his seed will prosper, sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah.”
• Deuteronomy 9:14Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under the heavens. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they.’
• Deuteronomy 25:19Now when Adonai your God grants you rest from all the enemies surrounding you in the land Adonai your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget!
• Deuteronomy 29:20Adonai will single him out from all the tribes of Israel for ­calamity, according to all the oaths of the covenant written in this scroll of the Torah.
• Proverbs 10:7The memory 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