Salmos 109:18

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Y vistióse de maldición como de su vestido, Y entró como agua en sus entrañas, Y como aceite en sus huesos.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Se vistió de maldición como si fuera su manto, y entró como agua en su cuerpo, y como aceite en sus huesos.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y se visti� de maldici�n como de su vestidura, y entr� como agua en sus entra�as, y como aceite en sus huesos.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y se visti� de maldici�n como de su vestido, y entr� como agua en sus entra�as, y como aceite en sus huesos.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

As he: Psalms 73:6, Job 29:14, Colossians 3:8, Colossians 3:12, 1 Peter 5:5

so let: Numbers 5:22, Numbers 5:27, Job 20:12-16, Job 20:20-23, Matthew 26:24, Matthew 27:3-5, Acts 1:18, Acts 1:25

into his bowels: Heb. within him

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:6 - curse me 2 Chronicles 21:15 - thy bowels fall Esther 9:25 - return Psalms 59:12 - cursing Psalms 109:19 - as the garment Jeremiah 24:9 - a curse Jeremiah 43:12 - putteth Lamentations 3:65 - thy Ezekiel 26:16 - clothe Ezekiel 32:27 - but Hosea 4:9 - reward them Romans 3:14 - General James 3:9 - therewith curse

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment,.... He was full of it; his mouth was full of cursing and bitterness; it was visible in him, easy to be discerned; he took pride as well as pleasure in it, it was in his esteem an ornament to him, as his clothes were. The Syriac version renders it, "as armour"; as if it was a protection to him, or he thought it to be so.

So let it come into his bowels like water; the meaning is, let the wrath of God and the curse of the law come into his conscience, and make sad work there, and fill him with dread and terror, and that in great abundance, and with great force; like a flood of waters that carry all before it; or like the waters of jealousy which made the belly to swell and the thigh to rot; or the flying roll of the curse, which entering into the house of the sinner destroyed it, and all in it, Numbers 5:22.

And like oil into his bones; which is more piercing and penetrating than water; and signifies the inward and quick sense he should have of his sins, and of the wrath of God for them; see Job 20:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with a garment - Moral qualities are often compared with raiment - as that in which we “appear” to our fellow-men. See 1 Peter 5:5; Job 29:14.

So let it come into his bowels like water - Margin, “within him.” Hebrew, “In his midst.” Let it penetrate him through and through. Let no part of him be unaffected by it.

And like oil into his bones - As if oil flowed through all his bones, so let the effects of cursing pervade his whole frame. The prayer is, that his entire nature might feel the effects of cursing; that he might know to the full what he was endeavoring to bring on others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 109:18. Let it come into his bowels like water — Houbigant thinks this is an allusion to the waters of jealousy; and he is probably right, - the bitter waters that produce the curse. See Numbers 5:18.