Psalm 109:9
New International Version
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

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

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

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

King James Bible
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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

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

NASB 1995
Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow.

NASB 1977
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let his sons be orphans And his wife a widow.

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

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Their children shall be orphans and their wives, widows.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Let his children become fatherless and his wife a widow.

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

International Standard Version
May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

Literal Standard Version
His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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

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

NET Bible
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

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

New Heart English Bible
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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

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

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

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Song of the Slandered
8May his days be few; may another take his position. 9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. 10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.…

Cross References
Exodus 22:24
My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Exodus 22:24
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

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Psalm 109
1. David complains of his slanderous enemies
16. He shows their sin
21. Complaining of his own misery, he prays for help
29. He promises thankfulness














(9) Children . . . wife.--It is one of the sadly peculiar features of this series of curses that the resentment of the imprecator cannot satisfy itself on the person of his foe, but fastens also on his innocent descendants. To invoke a speedy death does not content him; he must feast his anger with the thought of the fatherless children and desolate widow.

Verse 9. - Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Necessary consequences of his own condemnation to death.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
May his children
בָנָ֥יו (ḇā·nāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

be
יִֽהְיוּ־ (yih·yū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

fatherless
יְתוֹמִ֑ים (yə·ṯō·w·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3490: A bereaved person

and his wife
וְ֝אִשְׁתּוֹ (wə·’iš·tōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

a widow.
אַלְמָנָֽה׃ (’al·mā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 490: A widow, a desolate place


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