Psalms 109:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Psalms 109:18 —

Old words in this verse

bowels: — deep feelings, heartfelt compassion.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Numbers 5:22
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Matthew 27:3-5
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, …
Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Anger Blessing Cruelty Enquiring of God Hatred Heart Importunity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-20)

David here fastens upon some one particular person that was worse than the rest of his enemies, and the ringleader of them, and in a devout and pious manner, not from a principle of malice and revenge, but in a holy zeal for God and against sin and with an eye to the enemies of Christ, particularly Judas who betrayed him, whose sin was greater than Pilate’s that condemned him (John 19:11), he impr…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

17-19. Let his loved sin, cursing, come upon him in punishment (Psa 35:8), thoroughly fill him as water and oil, permeating to every part of his system (compare Nu 5:22-27), and become a garment and a girdle for a perpetual dress.