Psalms 109:7
When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.
BSB
ASV
When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin.
KJV
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
When he is judged, let him come forth condemned. Let him come not into judgment, but into condemnation. For where there is judgment, there is doubt: but where there is condemnation, the sentence is already plain. And let his prayer be turned into sin. The repentance of Judas was made a worse sin. How was the repentance of Judas made a worse sin? He went and perished by hanging; and he who became the betrayer of the Lord, this same man came to be his own slayer.
Let his prayer become sin, as the clamours of a condemned malefactor not only find no acceptance, but are looked upon as an affront to the court. The prayers of the wicked now become sin, because soured with the leaven of hypocrisy and malice; and so they will in the great day, because then it will be too late to cry, Lord, Lord, open to us.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned. He judged and condemned others in the vilest manner, he suffered not the innocent to escape; and it would be a great shame if in his time of trial, being really guilty, he should be allowed to go free. Who would wish Judge Jeffries to be acquitted if he were tried for perverting justice? Who would desire Nero or Caligula to be cleared if set at the bar for cruelty? When Shylock goes into court, who wishes him to win his suit? And let his prayer become sin.
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 walk8
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
Galatians 3:10All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
leads to
‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Through
Proverbs 28:9Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
leads to
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
Through
Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
leads to
The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
