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The Song of the Slandered

Psalms 109:13

In 11 translations

BSB
May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
KJV
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
WEB
Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
ASV
Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
LSV
His posterity is for cutting off, || Their name is blotted out in another generation.
YLT
His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.
DBY
Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:
DRC108:13
May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.
GNV
Let his posteritie be destroied, and in the generation following let their name be put out.
JPS
Let his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
LXXE108:13
Let his children be given up to utter destruction: in one generation let his name be blotted out.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יְהִֽי־אַחֲרִית֥וֹ לְהַכְרִ֑ית בְּד֥וֹר אַ֝חֵ֗ר יִמַּ֥ח שְׁמָֽם׃
LXX-Br108:13
Γενηθήτω τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ εἰς ἐξολόθρευσιν, ἐν γενεᾷ μιᾷ ἐξαλειφθείη τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
  • Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
  • Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
  • Isaiah 14:20–22You 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. Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities…
  • 2 Kings 10:10–11Know, 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.” So Jehu killed everyone in Jezreel who remained of the house of…
  • Jeremiah 22:30This 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 9:14Leave 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.”
  • Deuteronomy 25:19When 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!
  • 1 Samuel 2:31–33Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house. You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is…
  • Deuteronomy 29:20The 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
  • 1 Samuel 3:13I 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.
  • Psalms 21:10You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.

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