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Psalm 109:17-19
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 109:17-19
New Catholic Bible
17 He loved to level curses[a] at others;
may they recoil on him.
He took no pleasure in blessing;
may no blessing be his.
18 [b]“He clothed himself with cursing as his garment;
it seeped into his body like water
and into his bones like oil.
19 May it be like the robe that envelops him,
like the belt that encircles him every day.”
Footnotes
- Psalm 109:17 Curses: see note on Ps 10:7.
- Psalm 109:18 These words, leveled at the psalmist by his enemies, claim that cursing was his clothing as well as his food and drink; he lived, so to speak, by cursing (see Prov 4:17). Cursing was intended to destroy a person, his position, his family, and the remembrance of his name.
