Psalms 109 · Verse 13

Psalms 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 109:13, King James Version

Psalms 109:13 in other translations

BSBMay his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.
WEBLet his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
ASVLet his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
YLTHis posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.
DARBYLet his posterity be cut off; in the generation following let their name be blotted out:
BBELet his seed be cut off; in the coming generation let their name go out of memory.
WebsterLet his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

What does Psalms 109:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. posterity--literally, "end," as in Psa 37:38, or, what comes after; that is, reward, or success, or its expectation, of which posterity was to a Jew a prominent part.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 Let his posterity be cut off - It is a fact that the distinction among the Jewish tribes in entirely lost. Not a Jew in the world knows from what tribe he is sprung; and as to the royal family, it remains nowhere but in the person of Jesus the Messiah. He alone is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Except as it exists in him, the name is blotted out.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 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…

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Psalms 109:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְהִֽי\־ye.hi-may it beH1961
אַחֲרִית֥וֹ'a.cha.ri.Toposterity hisH319
לְהַכְרִ֑יתle.hakh.Ritto cut offH3772
בְּד֥וֹרbe.Dorin a generationH1755
אַ֝חֵ֗ר'a.CheranotherH312
יִמַּ֥חyi.Machmay it be wiped outH4229
שְׁמָֽם\׃she.Mamname theirH8034

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Cross references for Psalms 109:13

  • Proverbs 10:7

    The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

  • Psalms 37:28

    For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Job 18:19

    He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

  • 1 Samuel 2:31-33

    Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house. And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever. And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.

  • Psalms 21:10

    Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

  • Deuteronomy 29:20

    The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

  • Deuteronomy 25:19

    Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

  • Jeremiah 22:30

    Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

  • 2 Kings 10:10-11

    Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the Lord hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah. So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

  • Isaiah 14:20-22

    Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities. For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord.

  • 1 Samuel 3:13

    For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

  • Deuteronomy 9:14

    Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let his.
37:28; 1Sa 2:31-33; 3:13; 2Ki 10:10,11; Job 18:19; Isa 14:20-22
Jer 22:30
their name.
De 9:14; 25:19; 29:20; Pr 10:7

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Context

  • Psalms 109:12

    Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

  • Psalms 109:13

    Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

  • Psalms 109:14

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

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Psalms 109:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Su posteridad sea talada; en segunda generación sea raído su nombre.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Que sa postérité soit retranchée; que, dans la génération qui suivra, leur nom soit effacé;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Seine Nachkommen mögen ausgerottet werden; im folgenden Geschlecht erlösche ihr Name!