15 Let death steal over them;
    let them go down to Sheol (A)alive;
    for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

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18 (Now this man (A)acquired a field with (B)the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong[a] he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. 19 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called (C)in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) 20 “For it is written in the Book of Psalms,

(D)“‘May his camp become desolate,
    and let there be no one to dwell in it’;

and

(E)“‘Let another take his office.’

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 1:18 Or swelling up

(A)Appoint a wicked man (B)against him;
    let an accuser stand (C)at his right hand.
When he is tried, let him come forth guilty;
    let his (D)prayer be counted as sin!
May his (E)days be few;
    may (F)another take his (G)office!
May his (H)children be fatherless
    and his wife a widow!
10 May his children (I)wander about and beg,
    (J)seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
11 May (K)the creditor seize all that he has;
    may (L)strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!
12 Let there be none to (M)extend kindness to him,
    nor any to (N)pity his fatherless children!
13 May his (O)posterity be cut off;
    may his (P)name be blotted out in the second generation!
14 May (Q)the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
    and let not the sin of his mother be (R)blotted out!
15 (S)Let them be before the Lord continually,
    that he may (T)cut off the memory of them from the earth!

16 For he did not remember to show kindness,
    but pursued (U)the poor and needy
    and (V)the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
17 (W)He loved to curse; let curses come[a] upon him!
    He did not delight in blessing; may it be far[b] from him!
18 He (X)clothed himself with cursing as his coat;
    may it (Y)soak[c] into his body like water,
    like oil into his bones!
19 May it be like a garment that he wraps around him,
    like a belt that he puts on every day!
20 May this be the reward of my (Z)accusers from the Lord,
    of those who speak evil against my life!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 109:17 Revocalization; Masoretic Text curses have come
  2. Psalm 109:17 Revocalization; Masoretic Text it is far
  3. Psalm 109:18 Revocalization; Masoretic Text it has soaked

(A)But God shoots his arrow at them;
    they are wounded suddenly.

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13     (A)consume them in wrath;
    consume them till they are no more,
that they may (B)know that God rules over Jacob
    to (C)the ends of the earth. Selah

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25 to take the place in (A)this ministry and (B)apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

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And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, (A)he departed, and he went and hanged himself.

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24 The Son of Man goes (A)as it is written of him, but (B)woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! (C)It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

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22 (A)Let their own (B)table before them become a snare;
    (C)and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.[a]
23 (D)Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
    (E)and make their loins tremble continually.
24 Pour out your indignation upon them,
    and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 (F)May their camp be a desolation;
    let no one dwell in their tents.
26 For they (G)persecute him whom (H)you have struck down,
    and they recount the pain of (I)those you have wounded.
27 (J)Add to them punishment upon punishment;
    may they have no acquittal from you.[b]
28 Let them be (K)blotted out of the book of the living;
    let them not be (L)enrolled among the righteous.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 69:22 Hebrew; a slight revocalization yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome) a snare, and retribution and a trap
  2. Psalm 69:27 Hebrew may they not come into your righteousness

17 The wicked shall (A)return to Sheol,
    all the nations that (B)forget God.

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14 Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” And he took three javelins in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.

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And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak,[a] (A)and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.

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  1. 2 Samuel 18:9 Or terebinth; also verses 10, 14

23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to (A)his own city. He (B)set his house in order and (C)hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

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30 But if the Lord creates something new, and (A)the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they (B)go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”

31 (C)And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart. 32 And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and (D)all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods. 33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and (E)they perished from the midst of the assembly. 34 And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

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