Psalms 109:12
He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour.
13His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.
Cross References
Job 5:4Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
Isaiah 9:17Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one [is] profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
Isaiah 27:11In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it [is] not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.
Luke 6:38'Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'
James 2:13for the judgment without kindness [is] to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.
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 →