Psalms 109:12
Let him have none that extendeth kindness, and let there be none that is gracious to his fatherless children.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
11Let the creditor lay snares after all that he hath, and let strangers plunder his labor.
13Let his posterity be cut off: in another generation let their name be blotted out.
Cross References
Job 5:4His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them.
Isaiah 9:17(9:16) Therefore will the Lord have no joy in their young men, and on their fatherless and widows will he have no mercy; for every one is a hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh scandalous words. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand still remaineth stretched out.
Isaiah 27:11When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off; women will come and set them on fire; for it is not a people of understanding; therefore he that made it will not have mercy on it, and he that formed it will show it no favor.
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 →