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New Century Version

Psalms 109:9

Let his children become orphans and his wife a widow.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Prayer;   Sin;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Judas Iscariot;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Aceldama;   Judas Iscariot;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fatherless;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Habitation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let his children be fatherlessand his wife a widow.
Hebrew Names Version
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
King James Version
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
English Standard Version
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!
New English Translation
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!
Amplified Bible
Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow.
New American Standard Bible
May his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
World English Bible
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let his sons be orphansAnd his wife a widow.
Berean Standard Bible
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Contemporary English Version
Make orphans of his children and a widow of his wife;
Complete Jewish Bible
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Darby Translation
Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;
Easy-to-Read Version
Let his children become orphans and his wife a widow.
George Lamsa Translation
Let their children be fatherless and their wives widows.
Good News Translation
May his children become orphans, and his wife a widow!
Lexham English Bible
Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow,
Literal Translation
his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let his children be vagabundes, and begg their bred: let them seke it, as they that be destroyed.
American Standard Version
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
Bible in Basic English
Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
King James Version (1611)
Let his children bee fatherlesse: and his wife a widow.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let his chyldren be fatherlesse: and his wyfe a wydowe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.
English Revised Version
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hise sones be maad faderles; and his wijf a widewe.
Update Bible Version
Let his sons be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
Webster's Bible Translation
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
New King James Version
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
New Living Translation
May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow.
New Life Bible
Let his children be without a father. And let his wife be without a husband.
New Revised Standard
May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(108-9) May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Revised Standard Version
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!
Young's Literal Translation
His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow.

Contextual Overview

6 They say about me, "Have an evil person work against him, and let an accuser stand against him. 7 When he is judged, let him be found guilty, and let even his prayers show his guilt. 8 Let his life be cut short, and let another man replace him as leader. 9 Let his children become orphans and his wife a widow. 10 Make his children wander around, begging for food. Let them be forced out of the ruins in which they live. 11 Let the people to whom he owes money take everything he owns, and let strangers steal everything he has worked for. 12 Let no one show him love or have mercy on his orphaned children. 13 Let all his descendants die and be forgotten by those who live after him. 14 Lord , remember how wicked his ancestors were, and don't let the sins of his mother be wiped out. 15 Lord , always remember their sins. Then make people forget about them completely.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 18:21, Lamentations 5:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:18 - the fruit of thy body 2 Kings 10:17 - he slew Job 5:4 - children Job 20:26 - it shall go Job 21:19 - for his Ecclesiastes 5:14 - and he Acts 1:20 - Let his

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. This sometimes is the case of good men, who leave widows and fatherless children, whom the Lord shows mercy to; being the Father of the fatherless, and the Judge of the widow, Psalms 68:5, but sometimes it is threatened and comes as a judgment, when the Lord shows no mercy and favour to them, Exodus 22:24. And this is the case here, which very probably was literally fulfilled in Judas, who might have a wife and children; since it looks as if the other apostles had, and certain it is that one of them had a wife, even Peter, in the times of Christ; see 1 Corinthians 9:5. And this was verified in the people of the Jews; whom the Lord divorced from himself, and wrote a "loammi" upon them, and left them as orphans and fatherless, Hosea 1:9. This will never be the case of Christ's people, or the Christian church, John 14:18, though it will be of the antichristian one, Revelation 18:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let 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 malice against the wife, but may be consistent with the most tender compassion for her sufferings. It is simply one of the consequences which must follow from the punishment of a bad man. The enumeration of these things shows the enormity of the crime - just as the consequences which follow from the execution of a murderer are an illustration of the divine sense of the evil of the offence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 109:9. Let his children be fatherless, c. — 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.


 
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