Psalm 109:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

May his children be orphans and his wife a widow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Let his children become orphans; let his wife turn into a widow.

Psalm 109:9 Cross References

Exodus 22:24

my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore give their children over to famine; hurl them out to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle.

Lamentations 5:3

We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.