“Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”
Let his children wander about and beg; let them be driven out of the ruins of their homes. The children, now orphaned, suffer additional curses: wandering, begging, and homelessness. The cascade of curses suggests total devastation of the family structure. This verse portrays the enemies as calling for complete destitution of the speaker's descendants.
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