Verse 10
"Let his children be vagabonds, and beg;
And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
Let there be none to extend kindness to him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off;
In the generation following let their name be blotted out."
These imprecations run counter to the Christian conception that all young children are innocent. As Jesus stated it, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for unto such belongs the kingdom of heaven."
"Let strangers make spoil of his labor" (Psalms 109:11). It becomes clear here why David prayed that it might be a wicked judge who would try his enemy and sentence him to death. "The strangers, not subject to Hebrew law, would take advantage of his condemnation to death and appear with all kinds of claims against his estate, whether valid or not. It would matter little, for the claims would be sustained by the wicked judge, to whom they will give a share of the spoil."[11]
"Let his posterity be cut off ... their name be blotted out" (Psalms 109:13). "His prayer is that his orphaned children will be reprobates, banished from home, doomed to a speedy death, because of destitution, exposure and hunger."[12]
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