Psalms 109:18

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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WEBBE

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

BSB

The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

KJV

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.

ASV

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.

BBE

He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

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וַיִּלְבַּשׁ vai·yil·bash and he put on H3847 קְלָלָה ke·la·lah a curse H7045 כְּמַדּוֹ ke·ma·do like garment his H4055 וַתָּבֹא va·ta·vo' and it went H935 כַמַּיִם kha·ma·yim like (the) water H4325 בְּקִרְבּוֹ be·kir·bo in inward part[s] his H7130 וְכַשֶּׁמֶן ve·kha·she·men and like (the) oil H8081 בְּעַצְמוֹתָיו be·'atz·mo·tav in bones his H6106

The early church

"Let it be unto him as the cloak which covers him" [Psalm 109:18]. Since he has before spoken of the cloak, why does he repeat it? When he said, "He clothed himself with cursing as with a raiment;" does the raiment with which he is "covered" differ from that with which he is "clothed"? For every man is clothed with his tunic, covered with his cloak; and what is this, save boasting in iniquity, even in the sight of men? "and as the girdle," he says, "that he is always girded withal." Men are girded chiefly that they may be better fit for toil, that they may not be hindered by the folds of their dress. He therefore girds himself with curses, who designs an evil which he has carefully contrived, not on a sudden impulse, and who learns in such a manner to do evil, that he is always ready to commit it.

Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 6–20

The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on some of his enemies, to warn others. When men reject the salvation of Christ, even their prayers are numbered among their sins. See what hurries some to shameful deaths, and brings the families and estates of others to ruin; makes them and theirs despicable and hateful, and brings poverty, shame, and misery upon their posterity: it is sin, that mischievous, destructive thing. And what will be the effect of the sentence, "Go, ye cursed," upon the bodies and souls of the wicked! How it will affect the senses of the body, and the powers of the soul, with pain, anguish, horror, and despair! Think on these things, sinners, tremble and repent.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.