Psalms 109:11 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 109:11

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

KJV

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

⋯

Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Homily 35, on Psalm 108 (420)

Let the moneylender search out all his substance. You gave him money, O Lord, you gave to him as also to the others. But what did he do? He did not bind it up in a napkin, nor bury it in the earth, nor was he negligent: but when he had the Lord's talent and money, he took a price from the enemies of the Lord, and sold his own Lord. Therefore I say to you, O Lord, exact from him the interest of your money. And let strangers plunder his labors.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath,.... Or, "lay a snare for all" (c); as the Romans did, by bringing in their army, invading the land of Judea, and besieging the city of Jerusalem; who are "the extortioner or exacter that demanded tribute of them"; which they refused to pay, and therefore they seized on all they had for it. The Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "the creditor"; who sometimes for a debt would take wife and children, and all that a man had; see 2Ki 4:

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יְנַקֵּ֣שׁ	ye.na.Kesh	may he strike	H5367 →
נ֭וֹשֶׁה	No.o.sheh	a creditor	H5383 →
לְכָל־	le.khol	to all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	that	H834 →
ל֑וֹ	lo	[belongs] to him
וְיָבֹ֖זּוּ	ve.ya.Vo.zu	and may they plunder	H962 →
זָרִ֣ים	za.Rim	strangers	H2114 →
יְגִיעֽוֹ׃	ye.gi.'O	property his	H3018 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 5:5
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
leads to
- Lamentations 2:16
  All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see…
- Hosea 8:7
  For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
- Jeremiah 51:44
  I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
- Jeremiah 51:34
  “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies…
Through
Deuteronomy 28:29
and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to…
leads to
- Isaiah 59:10
  Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
- Job 5:14
  They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
- Judges 4:2–3
  So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
- Psalms 106:40–42
  So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

Featured studies on this passage

On Psalms 109:11

Praying the Hard Psalms — the Imprecatory Problem

Open the study →

About Psalms

Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Psalms: the study guide →Read chapter 109 →The featured study →

Continue: Psalms 109 →

01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Psalms