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Psalms 109:9

Psalms chapter 109 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

Context

v.8Let his days be few; Andlet another take his office.

v.9This passage

v.10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Lamentations 5:3

    We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Exodus 22:24

    and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Jeremiah 18:21

    Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.