Psalm 109:9 {108:9}
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May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Exodus 22:24 And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.

Lamentations 5:3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Context
The Song of the Slandered
8May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take. 9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.10Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:24
And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.

Lexicon
May his children
בָנָ֥יו (ḇā·nāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

be
יִֽהְיוּ־ (yih·yū-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

fatherless
יְתוֹמִ֑ים (yə·ṯō·w·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3490: A bereaved person

and his wife
וְ֝אִשְׁתּוֹ (wə·’iš·tōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

a widow.
אַלְמָנָֽה׃ (’al·mā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 490: A widow, a desolate place


Additional Translations
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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