◄ Psalm 109:19 {108:19} ►
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Good News Translation
May they cover him like clothes and always be around him like a belt!

New Revised Standard Version
May it be like a garment that he wraps around himself, like a belt that he wears every day.”

Contemporary English Version
Let his curses surround him, just like the belt and clothes he wears each day."

New American Bible
May it be near as the clothes he wears, as the belt always around him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.

as the garment

Psalm 109:18,29 And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones. . . .

Psalm 35:26 Let them blush: and be ashamed together, who rejoice at my evils. Let them be clothed with confusion and shame, who speak great things against me.

Psalm 132:18 His enemies I will clothe with confusion: but upon him shall my sanctification flourish.

Context
The Song of the Slandered
…18And he loved cursing, and it shall come unto him: and he would not have blessing, and it shall be far from him. And he put on cursing, like a garment: and it went in like water into his entrails, and like oil in his bones. 19May it be unto him like a garment which covereth him; and like a girdle with which he is girded continually.20This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:40
Thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast made them that resisted me to bow under me.

Psalm 30:11
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:

Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

Psalm 109:29
Let them that detract me be clothed with shame: and let them be covered with their confusion as with a double cloak.

Isaiah 11:5
And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins.

Jeremiah 43:12
And he shall kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he shall burn them, and he shall carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment: and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

Ezekiel 7:27
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with sorrow, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and will judge them according to their judgments: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Psalm 109:18
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