“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.
Church Fathers on Psalms 109:9
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…
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