Psalms 109:19 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 109:19

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

YLT

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

DBT

Let it be unto him as a garment with which he covereth himself, and for a girdle wherewith he is constantly girded.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

4 verses on the floor

Psalms 109:29
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Psalms 132:18
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
Psalms 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.
Psalms 35:26
Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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And let him have enough of it. Let God's curse come into his bowels like water and swell him as with a dropsy, and let it soak like oil into his bones. The word of the curse is quick and powerful, and divides between the joints and the marrow; it works powerfully and effectually; it fastens on the soul; it is a piercing thing, and there is no antidote against it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This points at the utter ruin of Judas, and the spiritual judgments which fell on the Jews for crucifying Christ. The psalmist concludes his imprecations with a terrible Amen, which signifies not only, "I wish it may be so," but "I know it shall be so." Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the Lord,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Let his loved sin, cursing, come upon him in punishment (Ps 35:8), thoroughly fill him as water and oil, permeating to every part of his system (compare Nu 5:22-27), and become a garment and a girdle for a perpetual dress.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 109:19PSA 132:18 JOB 8:22
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
PSA 109:19PSA 132:18 PSA 35:26
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 109:19PSA 109:29 PSA 132:18
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 109:19PSA 132:18 LUK 1:32-33
PSA 109:19PSA 109:18 PSA 73:6
PSA 109:19PSA 35:26 PSA 38:16
PSA 109:19PSA 132:18 PSA 21:8-9
PSA 109:19PSA 132:18 PSA 109:29

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