^{9 Ref} Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

^{10 Ref} Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek `their bread' out of their desolate places.

^{11 Ref} Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.

^{12 Ref} Let there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

^{13 Ref} Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

^{14 Ref} Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Jehovah; And let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

^{15 Ref} Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

^{16 Ref} Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay `them'.

^{17 Ref} Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

^{18 Ref} He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.

^{19 Ref} Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

^{20 Ref} This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.