Psalm 109:19
Strong's Lexicon
May it be
תְּהִי־ (tə·hî-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) ----- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about 1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

like a robe
כְּבֶ֣גֶד (kə·ḇe·ḡeḏ)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 899: 1) treachery, deceit 2) (CLBL) garment, clothing (used indiscriminately)

wrapped about him,
יַעְטֶ֑ה (ya‘·ṭeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5844: 1) to cover, enwrap, wrap oneself, envelop oneself 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to wrap, envelop oneself 1a2) to cover (the beard in mourning) 1a3) mourner, one who covers (participle) 1b) (Hiphil) to cover, enwrap, envelop 2) to grasp 2a) (Qal) to grasp

like a belt
וּ֝לְמֵ֗זַח (ū·lə·mê·zaḥ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4206: 1) girdle

tied
יַחְגְּרֶֽהָ׃ (yaḥ·gə·re·hā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2296: 1) to gird, gird on, gird oneself, put on a belt 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to gird 1a2) to gird on, bind on 1a3) to gird oneself

forever around him.
תָּמִ֥יד (tā·mîḏ)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 8548: 1) continuity, perpetuity, to stretch 1a) continually, continuously (as adverb) 1b) continuity (subst)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

Young's Literal Translation
It is to him as apparel—he covereth himself, And for a continual girdle he girdeth it on.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself, like a belt he always wears.

New American Standard Bible
Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself, And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.

King James Bible
Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
May it be like a cloak wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

New Living Translation
Now may his curses return and cling to him like clothing; may they be tied around him like a belt."

English Standard Version
May it be like a garment that he wraps around him, like a belt that he puts on every day!

New American Standard Bible
Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself, And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.

King James Bible
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself, like a belt he always wears.

International Standard Version
May those curses wrap around him like a garment, or like a belt that one always wears.

NET Bible
May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, or a belt one wears continually!

American Standard Version
Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

English Revised Version
wherewith he covereth himself, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

Young's Literal Translation
It is to him as apparel -- he covereth himself, And for a continual girdle he girdeth it on.
















Cross References
2 Samuel 22:40
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

Psalm 30:11
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

Psalm 109:29
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

Isaiah 11:5
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

Jeremiah 43:12
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

Ezekiel 7:27
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 109:18
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Psalm 109:17
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

Psalm 109:16
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
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