Psalms 109:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Psalms 109:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 22:24
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Depravity of Man Enquiring of God Guilt Importunity Popular Sins Prayer

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. 9)

9-10. 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.