Psalms 109:18
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.
Psalms 109:18 in other translations
| BSB | The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil. |
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| WEB | He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones. |
| DARBY | And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones; |
| BBE | He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil. |
| Webster | 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. |
What does Psalms 109:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 109:17-19
17-19. Let his loved sin, cursing, come upon him in punishment (Psa 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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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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…
Psalms 109:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 109:18
- Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- Numbers 5:22
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
- Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
- Matthew 27:3-5
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
- 1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
- Job 20:12-16
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. …
- Job 29:14
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
- Matthew 26:24
The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
- Job 20:20-23
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
- Acts 1:18
Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
- Numbers 5:27
And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
- Colossians 3:8
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
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Context
- Psalms 109:17
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
- Psalms 109:18
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.
- Psalms 109:19
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Psalms 109:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y vistióse de maldición como de su vestido, y entró como agua en sus entrañas, y como aceite en sus huesos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et qu’il soit revêtu de la malédiction comme de sa robe; et qu’elle entre au-dedans de lui comme de l’eau, et dans ses os comme de l’huile; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er zog den Fluch an wie sein Kleid, so dringe er wie Wasser in sein Inneres und wie Öl in seine Gebeine! |