Psalms 109:10
Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
9Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.
11Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:29May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!
Job 5:4Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
Job 27:14If his children are increased, it is for the sword; and his offspring have not enough bread.
Psalms 37:25I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.
Isaiah 16:2For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 109:7-21
Prophetic Imprecations. 6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office. 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. 12 Let there be none to… Read the whole commentary →