Psalms 109:18

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

17Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

19Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

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Cross References

Numbers 5:22and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

Job 20:12“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

Job 29:14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Psalms 109:19Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

Matthew 27:3Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

Acts 1:25to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place.”

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 →

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