Psalms 109:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.”
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“May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“His posterity is for cutting off, In another generation is their name blotted out.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 109:13 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 27:4Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”
- Deuteronomy 9:14Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
- Deuteronomy 25:19When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
- Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- 1 Samuel 2:31Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.
- 1 Samuel 3:13I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
- 1 Kings 16:11As soon as Zimri began to reign and was seated on the throne, he struck down the entire household of Baasha. He did not leave a single male, whether a kinsman or friend.
- 2 Kings 10:10Know, then, that not a word the LORD has spoken against the house of Ahab will fail, for the LORD has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”
- Esther 9:10They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
- Job 18:17The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.
- Job 18:19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.
- Psalms 21:10You will wipe their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from the sons of men.
- Psalms 21:11Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.
- Psalms 37:28For the LORD loves justice and will not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off.
- Proverbs 10:7The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
- Isaiah 14:20You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
- Jeremiah 22:30This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
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