Psalm 109:13

Translations

Modern

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Traditional

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Literal

Let his posterity be for cutting off; in the next generation let their name be blotted out!

Latin

Fiant nati ejus in interitum; in generatione una deleatur nomen ejus.

Original

Hebrew

English

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Notes

Psalms 109:13

If one’s family name was blotted out, it meant there was no offspring to continue the family name or remember its history (see Proverbs 10:7).

Psalms 109:6–19

The NLT translates these verses as the words of the psalmist’s accusers; Hebrew lacks They say, which makes it unclear who is speaking.

Psalms 109:1–31

The psalmist starts this lament by accusing his accusers of repaying good with evil (Psalm 109:1–5). At the end of the psalm, he prays to the Lord, seeking protection (Psalm 109:21–25) and vengeance (109:26–31).

Theme notes and profiles

David Prayers for Vengeance Psalms of Suffering

Related verses

Proverbs 10:7
The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
Psalm 37:28
For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
Job 18:19
He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
1 Samuel 3:13
I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
Deuteronomy 9:14
Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
Psalm 21:10
You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
Jeremiah 22:30
This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
Deuteronomy 29:20
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
Isaiah 14:20–22
You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
Deuteronomy 25:19
When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
2 Kings 10:10–11
Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”
1 Samuel 2:31–33
Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no one in it will reach old age.

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Psalm 109:13

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