Psalms 109:9

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Let his sons be orphansAnd his wife a widow.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let his chyldren be fatherlesse: and his wyfe a wydowe.

Darby Translation
Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;

New King James Version
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

Literal Translation
his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow;

Easy-to-Read Version
Let his children become orphans and his wife a widow.

World English Bible
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

King James Version (1611)
Let his children bee fatherlesse: and his wife a widow.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let his children be vagabundes, and begg their bred: let them seke it, as they that be destroyed.

Amplified Bible
Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow.

American Standard Version
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

Bible in Basic English
Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.

Update Bible Version
Let his sons be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

New English Translation
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

Contemporary English Version
Make orphans of his children and a widow of his wife;

Complete Jewish Bible
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.

George Lamsa Translation
Let their children be fatherless and their wives widows.

Hebrew Names Version
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

New Living Translation
May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow.

New Life Bible
Let his children be without a father. And let his wife be without a husband.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

English Revised Version
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Berean Standard Bible
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

New Revised Standard
May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow;

Douay-Rheims Bible
(108-9) May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Lexham English Bible
Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow,

English Standard Version
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow!

New American Standard Bible
May his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

New Century Version
Let his children become orphans and his wife a widow.

Good News Translation
May his children become orphans, and his wife a widow!

Christian Standard Bible®
Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hise sones be maad faderles; and his wijf a widewe.

Young's Literal Translation
His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Revised Standard Version
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

Contextual Overview

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 extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. ¹³ Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out. ¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord ; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. ¹⁵ Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Bible Verse Review
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Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 18:21, Lamentations 5:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:18 - the fruit of thy body 2 Kings 10:17 - he slew Job 5:4 - children Job 20:26 - it shall go Job 21:19 - for his Ecclesiastes 5:14 - and he Acts 1:20 - Let his

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. This sometimes is the case of good men, who leave widows and fatherless children, whom the Lord shows mercy to; being the Father of the fatherless, and the Judge of the widow, Psalms 68:5, but sometimes it is threatened and comes as a judgment, when the Lord shows no mercy and favour to them, Exodus 22:24. And this is the case here, which very probably was literally fulfilled in Judas, who might have a wife and children; since it looks as if the other apostles had, and certain it is that one of them had a wife, even Peter, in the times of Christ; see 1 Corinthians 9:5. And this was verified in the people of the Jews; whom the Lord divorced from himself, and wrote a "loammi" upon them, and left them as orphans and fatherless, Hosea 1:9. This will never be the case of Christ's people, or the Christian church, John 14:18, though it will be of the antichristian one, Revelation 18:7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let his children be fatherless - Hebrew, “his sons.” This is what “always” occurs when a criminal who is a father is executed. It is one of the consequences of crime; and if the officer of justice does his duty, of course, the sons of such a man “must” be made fatherless. The prayer is, simply, that justice may be done, and all this is but an enumeration of what must follow from the proper execution of the laws.

And his wife a widow - This implies no malice against the wife, but may be consistent with the most tender compassion for her sufferings. It is simply one of the consequences which must follow from the punishment of a bad man. The enumeration of these things shows the enormity of the crime - just as the consequences which follow from the execution of a murderer are an illustration of the divine sense of the evil of the offence.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 109:9. Let his children be fatherless, c. — It is said that Judas was a married man, against whom this verse, as well as the preceding is supposed to be spoken and that it was to support them that he stole from the bag in which the property of the apostles was put, and of which he was the treasurer.