⁸ May his days be few;^(A)
    may another take his place^(B) of leadership.
⁹ May his children be fatherless
    and his wife a widow.^(C)
10 May his children be wandering beggars;^(D)
    may they be driven^[a] from their ruined homes.
¹¹ May a creditor^(E) seize all he has;
    may strangers plunder^(F) the fruits of his labor.^(G)
12 May no one extend kindness to him
    or take pity^(H) on his fatherless children.
¹³ May his descendants be cut off,^(I)
    their names blotted out^(J) from the next generation.
¹⁴ May the iniquity of his fathers^(K) be remembered before the Lord;
    may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
¹⁵ May their sins always remain before^(L) the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name^(M) from the earth.

¹⁶ For he never thought of doing a kindness,
    but hounded to death the poor
    and the needy^(N) and the brokenhearted.^(O)
17 He loved to pronounce a curse—
    may it come back on him.^(P)
He found no pleasure in blessing—
    may it be far from him.
¹⁸ He wore cursing^(Q) as his garment;
    it entered into his body like water,^(R)
    into his bones like oil.
¹⁹ May it be like a cloak wrapped^(S) about him,
    like a belt tied forever around him.

⁶ for they have shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets,^(A)
    and you have given them blood to drink^(B) as they deserve.”