Psalms 109:12 · KJV
“Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.”
— Psalms 109:12
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Let his posterity be cut off; {and} in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Psalms 109 — Context
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek {their bread} also out of their desolate places.
11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be cut off; {and} in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Cross References
Psalms 137:8-9
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy {shall he be}, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. {destroyed: Heb. wasted} {rewardeth...: Heb. recompenseth unto thee thy deed which thou didst to us}
James 2:13
For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. {rejoiceth: or, glorieth}
Matthew 27:25
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood {be} on us, and on our children.
Luke 6:38
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one {is} an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand {is} stretched out still. {folly: or, villany}
Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, {and} set them on fire: for it {is} a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Luke 11:50-51
That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither {is there} any to deliver {them}.