Psalms 109:9

In 11 translations

BSB

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.

YLT

His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.

DBY

Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;

DRC108:9

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

GNV

Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.

JPS

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

LXXE108:9

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

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Original-language editions

WLC

יִֽהְיוּ־בָנָ֥יו יְתוֹמִ֑ים וְ֝אִשְׁתּוֹ אַלְמָנָֽה׃

LXX-Br108:9

Γενηθήτωσαν οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ ὀρφανοὶ, καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ χήρα.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Exodus 22:24My 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 18:21Therefore, 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…
• Lamentations 5:3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

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