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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.

KJV

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.

ASV

וַ/יִּלְבַּ֥שׁ קְלָלָ֗ה כְּ/מַ֫דּ֥/וֹ וַ/תָּבֹ֣א כַ/מַּ֣יִם בְּ/קִרְבּ֑/וֹ וְ֝/כַ/שֶּׁ֗מֶן בְּ/עַצְמוֹתָֽי/ו

Hebrew

And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.

YLT

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
ו
v
noun · 11×
וֹ
v
noun · 227×
י
y
noun · 126×
ם
m
verb · 110×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
קְלָלָ֔ה
qllh
noun · 33×
שֶּׁ֖מֶן
shmn
noun · 191×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Col 3:12 — Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
  • Ezek 32:27 — And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquit
  • Jer 43:12 — And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garme
  • Matt 27:3 — Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
  • Num 5:22 — And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
  • Num 5:22 — And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
  • Ps 73:6 — Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
  • Ps 73:6 — Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.