Psalm 109:9 {108:9}
Good News Translation
May his children become orphans, and his wife a widow!

New Revised Standard Version
May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

Contemporary English Version
Make orphans of his children and a widow of his wife;

New American Bible
May his children be fatherless, his wife, a widow.

Douay-Rheims Bible
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Psalm 109:8
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