Psalms Chapter 109 verse 18 Holy Bible
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.
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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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And he clothed himself with cursing like his vestment; so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones;
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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.
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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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And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment (comp. Psalm 10:7; Psalm 59:12; Psalm 62:4). Extreme malevolence vents itself in curses, which tend to become frequent, and, so to speak, habitual. So let it come; rather, so it cams, or so it will come. Into his bowels like water. Dr. Kay sees here an allusion to the "water of cursing" which was drunk by the woman whose husband taxed her with unfaithfulness (Numbers 5:22); and so also Hengstenberg. But this is doubtful. Perhaps the mere penetrative power of water is alluded to. See the next clause. And like oil into his bones. The oil, wherewith it was usual to anoint the frame, was believed to penetrate, not only into the tissues, but into the very bones and marrow.
