Psalm 109:14

Translations

Modern

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

Traditional

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Literal

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to YHWH, and the sin of his mother not be blotted out.

Latin

In memoriam redeat iniquitas patrum ejus in conspectu Domini, et peccatum matris ejus non deleatur.

Original

Hebrew

English

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

Notes

Psalms 109:14

Children share in the sinful condition of their parents (Psalm 51:5; Exodus 20:5; Ephesians 2:3). The speaker asks the Lord to punish this guilty person also for the sins of his family who lived before him (compare Matthew 23:35–36).

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).

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Related verses

Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Nehemiah 4:5
Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.
Jeremiah 18:23
But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
2 Samuel 3:29
May it whirl over the head of Joab and over the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
2 Samuel 21:1
During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
2 Kings 9:27
When King Ahaziah of Judah saw this, he fled up the road toward Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him, shouting, “Shoot him too!” So they shot Ahaziah in his chariot on the Ascent of Gur, near Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo and died there.
2 Chronicles 22:3–4
Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
Leviticus 26:39
Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
Matthew 23:31–36
So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
2 Kings 11:1
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.
2 Kings 8:27
And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
2 Kings 10:13–14
Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.”

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