Psalms 109:13

13 Let the line of his descendants be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the next generation.^[a]

Psalms 109:13 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off
As the seed of the wicked are said to be, ( Psalms 37:28 ) , or cut down, as a tree to the very root; as the Jewish nation was by the axe of God's judgment, which, John says, was laid to the root of the tree, and the blow just going to be given, as it was in a few years after, ( Matthew 3:10 ) or, as the Targum,

``let his end be for destruction;''

and so the Syriac version, "let their end be for destruction"; their last end, which it is said shall be cut off, and issue in death, eternal death; when the end of a good man is peace and eternal life, see ( Psalms 37:37 Psalms 37:38 ) ( Romans 6:21 ) .

And in the generation following let their name be blotted out:
or, in another age ^F4; the next age, the third generation; meaning the name of the posterity of Judas, and the name of the people of the Jews, so as to be spoken of with honour and reputation; but, instead of that, they are for a taunt, a proverb, and a curse, in all places.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (rxa rwdb) "in generatione altera", Pagninus, Montanus

Psalms 109:13 In-Context

11 Let a creditor seize all he has; let strangers plunder what he has worked for.

12 Let no one show him kindness, and let no one be gracious to his fatherless children.

13 Let the line of his descendants be cut off; let their name be blotted out in the next generation.

14 Let his forefathers' guilt be remembered before the Lord, and do not let his mother's sin be blotted out.

15 Let their sins always remain before the Lord, and let Him cut off [all] memory of them from the earth.

Footnotes

• [a]. Jb 18:17,19; Pr 10:7