Psalm 109:13 {108:13}
Good News Translation
May all his descendants die, and may his name be forgotten in the next generation.

New Revised Standard Version
May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation.

Contemporary English Version
Bring an end to his family, and from now on let him be a forgotten man.

New American Bible
May his posterity be destroyed, their name rooted out in the next generation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

let his

Psalm 37:28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

1 Samuel 2:31-33 Behold the days come: and I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house. . . .

1 Samuel 3:13 For I have foretold unto him, that I will judge his house for ever, for iniquity, because he knew that his sons did wickedly, and did not chastise them.

2 Kings 10:10,11 See therefore now that there hath not fallen to the ground any of the words of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Achab, and the Lord hath done that which he spoke in the hand of his servant Elias. . . .

Job 18:19 His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

Isaiah 14:20-22 Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be named for ever. . . .

Jeremiah 22:30 Thus saith the Lord: Write this man barren, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for there shall not be a man of his seed that shall sit upon the throne of David, and have power any more in Juda.

their name

Deuteronomy 9:14 Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.

Deuteronomy 25:19 Therefore when the Lord thy God shall give thee rest, and shall have subdued all the nations round about in the land which he hath promised thee: thou shalt blot out his name from under heaven. See thou forget it not.

Deuteronomy 29:20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

Proverbs 10:7 The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Context
The Song of the Slandered
12May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring. 13May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.14May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.

Job 18:19
His seed shall not subsist, nor his offspring among his people, nor any remnants in his country.

Psalm 9:5
Thou hast rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one hath perished; thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.

Psalm 21:10
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth: and their seed from among the children of men.

Psalm 37:28
For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

Proverbs 10:7
The wise of heart receiveth precepts: a fool is beaten with lips.

Jeremiah 11:19
And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.

Nahum 1:14
And the Lord will give a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name shall be sown: I will destroy the graven and molten thing out of the house of thy God, I will make it thy grave, for thou art disgraced.

Psalm 109:12
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