Psalm 109:9–20

⁹May his children be fatherless

and his wife a widow.

¹⁰May his children wander as beggars,

seeking sustenance^b far from their ruined homes.

¹¹May the creditor seize all he owns,

and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

¹²May there be no one to extend kindness to him,

and no one to favor his fatherless children.

¹³May his descendants be cut off;

may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

¹⁴May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD,

and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.

¹⁵May their sins always remain before the LORD,

that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

¹⁶For he never thought to show kindness,

but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted,

even to their death.

¹⁷The cursing that he loved,

may it fall on him;

the blessing in which he refused to delight,

may it be far from him.

¹⁸The cursing that he wore like a coat,

may it soak into his body like water,

and into his bones like oil.

¹⁹May it be like a robe wrapped about him,

like a belt tied forever around him.

²⁰May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers,

to those who speak evil against me.