Psalm 109:18 He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

English Standard Version
He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!

New American Standard Bible
But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, And it entered into his body like water And like oil into his bones.

King James Bible
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He wore cursing like his coat-- let it enter his body like water and go into his bones like oil.

International Standard Version
He wore curses like a garment— may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil.

American Standard Version
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones.

Darby Bible Translation
And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones;

Young's Literal Translation
And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.

Cross References

Numbers 5:22
And this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly to swell, and your thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

Psalm 109:29
Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

Jeremiah 43:12
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.

Ezekiel 7:27
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 32:27
And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be on their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

109:6-20 The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on some of his enemies, to warn others. When men reject the salvation of Christ, even their prayers are numbered among their sins. See what hurries some to shameful deaths, and brings the families and estates of others to ruin; makes them and theirs despicable and hateful, and brings poverty, shame, and misery upon their posterity: it is sin, that mischievous, destructive thing. And what will be the effect of the sentence, Go, ye cursed, upon the bodies and souls of the wicked! How it will affect the senses of the body, and the powers of the soul, with pain, anguish, horror, and despair! Think on these things, sinners, tremble and repent.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17-19. Let his loved sin, cursing, come upon him in punishment (Ps 35:8), thoroughly fill him as water and oil, permeating to every part of his system (compare Nu 5:22-27), and become a garment and a girdle for a perpetual dress.