Psalms 109:17–20
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
As he loued cursing, so let it come vnto him: as hee delighted not in blessing, so let it be farre from him.
As 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.
†As he clothed himselfe with cursing like as with his garment: so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- †Hebrew wordingHeb. within him.
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Let it be vnto him as the garment which couereth him: and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
Let this be the reward of mine aduersaries from the LORD: and of them that speake euill against my soule.
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From verse 17
- Matthew 7:2Rank 1 from verse 17
- Proverbs 14:14Rank 2 from verse 17
- Ezekiel 35:6Rank 3 from verse 17
6Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
6Therefore, as I liue, saith the LORD God, I will prepare thee vnto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, euen blood shall pursue thee.
- Psalms 52:4–5Rank 4 from verse 17
4Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.
5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
4‖Thou louest all deuouring words, O thou deceitfull tongue.
5†God shall likewise destroy thee for euer, hee shall take thee away and plucke thee out of thy dwelling place, and roote thee out of the land of the liuing. Selah.
- Psalms 59:12–13Rank 5 from verse 17
12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
13Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
12 For the sinne of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them euen be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speake.
13Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Iacob, vnto the ends of the earth. Selah.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10–11Rank 6 from verse 17
10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
10And with all deceiueablenesse of vnrighteousnesse, in them that perish: because they receiued not the loue of the trueth, that they might be saued.
11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should beleeue a lye:
- Revelation 16:6Rank 7 from verse 17
From verse 18
- Psalms 73:6Rank 1 from verse 18
- Numbers 5:22Rank 2 from verse 18
22And 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.
22And 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 3:12Rank 3 from verse 18
- Matthew 27:3–5Rank 4 from verse 18
3¶ 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,
4Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
3¶ Then Iudas, which had betraied him, when he saw that hee was condemned, repented himselfe, and brought againe the thirtie pieces of siluer to the chiefe Priests and Elders,
4Saying, I haue sinned, in that I haue betraied the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to vs? see thou to that.
5And hee cast downe the pieces of siluer in the Temple, *and departed, and went and hanged himselfe.
- 1 Peter 5:5Rank 5 from verse 18
5Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
5Likewise ye yonger, submit your selues vnto the elder: yea, all of you bee subiect one to another, and bee clothed with humilitie: for God resisteth the proud, and giueth grace to the humble.
- Colossians 3:8Rank 8 from verse 18
- Job 20:12–16Rank 9 from verse 18
12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
13Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
15He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
12Though wickednes be sweet in his mouth, though hee hide it vnder his tongue;
13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keepe it stil †within his mouth:
14 Yet his meate in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of Aspes within him.
15He hath swallowed downe riches, and hee shall vomite them vp againe: God shall cast them out of his belly.
16He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.
- Job 20:20–23Rank 10 from verse 18
20Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
21There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
23When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
20Surely he shall not †feele quietnesse in his belly, hee shall not saue of that which he desired.
21‖There shall none of his meat be left, therefore shall no man looke for his goods.
22In the fulnesse of his sufficiencie, he shalbe in straites: euery hand of the ‖wicked shall come vpon him.
23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the furie of his wrath vpon him, and shall raine it vpon him while he is eating.
- Matthew 26:24Rank 12 from verse 18
24The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
24The sonne of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe vnto that man by whom the sonne of man is betrayed: It had bin good for that man, if hee had not bene borne.
- Numbers 5:27Rank 13 from verse 18
27And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
27And when he hath made her to drinke the water, then it shall come to passe, that if shee be defiled, and haue done trespasse against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse, shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shal rot: and the woman shalbe a curse among her people.
From verse 19
- Psalms 109:29Rank 1 from verse 19
- Psalms 132:18Rank 2 from verse 19
- Psalms 109:18Rank 3 from verse 19
- Psalms 35:26Rank 4 from verse 19
26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together, that reioyce at mine hurt: let them bee cloathed with shame and dishonour, that magnifie themselues against me.
From verse 20
- 2 Timothy 4:14Rank 1 from verse 20
- 1 Kings 2:44Rank 2 from verse 20
44The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the Lord shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
44The king said moreuer to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickednesse which thine heart is priuie to, that thou diddest to Dauid my father: therefore the LORD shall returne thy wickednesse vpon thine owne head.
- Psalms 94:23Rank 3 from verse 20
- 1 Corinthians 12:3Rank 4 from verse 20
3Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
3Wherefore I giue you to vnderstand, that no man speaking by the spirit of God, calleth Iesus ‖accursed: and that no man can say that Iesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:15–16Rank 5 from verse 20
15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
15Who both killed the Lord Iesus, and their owne Prophets, and haue ‖persecuted vs: and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
16Forbidding vs to speake to the Gentiles, that they might bee saued, to fill vp their sinnes alway: for the wrath is come vpon them to the vttermost.
- 2 Samuel 17:23Rank 6 from verse 20
23¶ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
23¶ And when Ahithophel sawe that his counsell was not †followed, he sadled his asse, and arose, and gate him home to his house, to his citie, and †put his houshold in order, and hanged himselfe, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
- 2 Samuel 18:32Rank 7 from verse 20
32And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.
32And the king said vnto Cushi, Is the yong man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to doe thee hurt, be as that yong man is.
- Luke 19:27Rank 8 from verse 20
- Matthew 11:19Rank 10 from verse 20
19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
19The sonne of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a wine bibber, a friend of publicanes and sinners: but wisedom is iustified of her children.
- Matthew 12:24Rank 11 from verse 20
- Matthew 26:66–67Rank 12 from verse 20
66What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
67Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
66What thinke ye? They answered and said, He is guiltie of death.
67*Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and others smote him with ‖the palmes of their hands,
- Psalms 110:1Rank 13 from verse 20
- Psalms 110:5–6Rank 14 from verse 20
5The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
5The LORD at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6‖He shal iudge among the heathen, he shal fil the places with the dead bodies: he shall wound the heads ouer many countries.
- Psalms 2:12Rank 15 from verse 20
12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
12Kisse the Sonne lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little: *Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
- Psalms 2:5–6Rank 16 from verse 20
- Psalms 21:8–12Rank 17 from verse 20
8Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
9Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
10Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
8Thine hand shall finde out all thine enemies, thy right hand shal finde out those that hate thee.
9Thou shalt make them as a fiery ouen in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them vp in his wrath, and the fire shall deuoure them.
10Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
11For they intended euill against thee: they imagined a mischieuous deuice, which they are not able to performe.
12‖†Therefore shalt thou make them turne their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrowes vpon thy strings, against the face of them.
- Psalms 40:14–15Rank 18 from verse 20
14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
15Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
14*Let them be ashamed and confounded together, that seeke after my soule to destroy it: let them be driuen backward, and put to shame, that wish me euill.
15Let them be desolate, for a reward on their shame, that say vnto me, Aha, aha!
- Psalms 71:10Rank 19 from verse 20
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Psalms 109:17
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of love, meaning to regard with affection or devotion.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
1. The uttering of curses or reviling words. 2. A pronounced curse or doom; the condition subject to it.
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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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Took great pleasure in, was pleased with, or rejoiced in the person or thing named.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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Sense 1: The act or words of pronouncing good; divine favor. Sense 2: A benefit bestowed by God.
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Psalms 109:18
1. Dressed or covered with garments or another material covering. 2. Figuratively, furnished, arrayed, or characterized with a stated condition or quality.
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1. The uttering of curses or reviling words. 2. A pronounced curse or doom; the condition subject to it.
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Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
1. An article of clothing or covering worn or placed about the body. 2. Figuratively, something that covers or surrounds as clothing does.
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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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1. Figuratively, deep inward feeling or affection, especially compassion, mercy, or distress; also one deeply loved. 2. The inward organs or inner parts of the body. 3. The womb or inward bodily source of offspring.
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Sense 1: The common liquid necessary for life. Sense 2: As a verb, to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
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1. An oily substance, especially olive oil. 2. To anoint or supply with oil.
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Psalms 109:19
Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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1. An article of clothing or covering worn or placed about the body. 2. Figuratively, something that covers or surrounds as clothing does.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.
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Places, spreads, or keeps something over another; hides, conceals, encloses, shelters, clothes, or occupies its surface or extent.
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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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A belt, sash, or band worn around the waist or body to bind or secure clothing or other items.
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With which, by which, or by means of which.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of gird, meaning to fasten clothing or another object around the body.
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continually
1. Repeatedly, habitually, or at every appointed recurrence. 2. Without pause or cessation during the period stated.
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Psalms 109:20
Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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Sense 1: A benefit, payment, honour, punishment, or recompense given or received. Sense 2: As a verb, to give such a return.
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adversaries
Opponents or enemies; persons who resist, oppose, or accuse.
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The divine name of the living God, also named JEHOVAH.
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Sense 1: To utter words or articulate sounds, or to use a language. Sense 2: To address or converse with someone. Sense 3: To state, declare, make mention of, or otherwise make a matter known.
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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.
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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893
Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.
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109:1HOLD not thy peace, O God of my praise;
109:1¶ Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise.
109:2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
109:2††For the mouth of the wicked, and the mouth of the deceitfull are opened against mee: they haue spoken against me with a lying tongue.
109:3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
109:3They compassed mee about also with wordes of hatred: and fought against me without a cause.
109:4For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
109:4For my loue, they are my aduersaries: but I giue my selfe vnto prayer.
109:5And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
109:5And they haue rewarded me euill for good: and hatred for my loue.
109:6Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
109:6‖Set thou a wicked man ouer him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
109:7When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
109:7†When he shall be iudged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sinne.
109:8Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
109:8*‖Let his dayes be few: and let another take his office.
109:9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
109:9Let his children bee fatherlesse: and his wife a widow.
109:10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
109:10Let his children bee continually vagabonds, & begge: let them seeke their bread also out of their desolate places.
109:11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
109:11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath: and let the strangers spoile his labour.
109:12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
109:12Let there be none to extend mercy vnto him: neither let there be any to fauour his fatherlesse children.
109:13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
109:13Let his posteritie be cut off: and in the generation folowing let their name be blotted out.
109:14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
109:14Let the iniquitie of his fathers be remembred with the LORD: and let not the sinne of his mother be blotted out.
109:15Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
109:15Let them be before the LORD continually: that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
109:16Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
109:16Because that he remembred not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poore and needy man: that he might euen slay the broken in heart.
109:17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
109:17As he loued cursing, so let it come vnto him: as hee delighted not in blessing, so let it be farre from him.
Selected passage109:18As 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.
109:18†As he clothed himselfe with cursing like as with his garment: so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oyle into his bones.
Selected passage109:19Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
109:19Let it be vnto him as the garment which couereth him: and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Selected passage109:20Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
109:20 Let this be the reward of mine aduersaries from the LORD: and of them that speake euill against my soule.
Selected passage109:21But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
109:21But do thou for me, O God the LORD, for thy Names sake: because thy mercie is good: deliuer thou me.
109:22For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
109:22For I am poore and needie: and my heart is wounded within me.
109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
109:23I am gone like the shadow, when it declineth: I am tossed vp and downe as the locust.
109:24My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
109:24My knees are weake through fasting: and my flesh faileth of fatnesse.
109:25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
109:25I became also a reproch vnto them: when they looked vpon me, they shaked their heads.
109:26Help me, O Lord my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
109:26Helpe me, O LORD my God: O saue me according to thy mercie.
109:27That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.
109:27That they may know, that th is is thy hand: that thou, LORD, hast done it.
109:28Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
109:28Let them curse, but blesse thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let thy seruant reioyce.
109:29Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
109:29Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame: and let them couer them selues with their owne confusion, as with a mantle.
109:30I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
109:30I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth: yea I will praise him among the multitude.
109:31For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
109:31†For he shal stand at the right hand of the poore: to saue him from those that condemne his soule.