“Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.”
Let his posterity be cut off; let his name be blotted out in the second generation. The curse targets the future itself: the speaker's descendants will be destroyed, and his name will be forgotten. The 'second generation' suggests that the curse will manifest fully in the next age. This verse indicates that the enemies call for erasure of the speaker's lineage and memory.
Church Fathers on Psalms 109:12
1. Every one who faithfully reads the Acts of the Apostles, acknowledges that this Psalm contains a prophecy of Christ; for it evidently appears that what is here written, “let his days be few, and let another take his office,” is prophesied of Judas, the betrayer of Christ....For as some things are said which seem peculiarly to apply to the Apostle Peter, and yet are not clear in their meaning, unless when referred to the Church, whom he is acknowledged to have figuratively…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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