Psalm 109:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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

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

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over 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.