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Psalm 109:11

Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
11Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
12Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.
13Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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A creditor seizing everything and strangers plundering earned goods make this curse stark within a passage that also seeks the man’s family’s ruin.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Job 5:5whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.Both describe the loss of what someone has produced, with others taking a harvest or the fruit of labor.
Deuteronomy 28:29You will grope at noonday, as a blind person gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there …Both describe devastating material loss through robbery, though Deuteronomy states a consequence and the psalm voices a curse.
Job 18:9–19A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.The shared thread is ruin: the psalm names creditors and plunderers, while Job pictures a snare and trap.
Deuteronomy 28:50–51a nation of fierce facial expressions, that doesn’t respect the elderly, nor show favor to the young.Both portray harm from other people, though Deuteronomy emphasizes disregard for age and the psalm specifies plunder.
Deuteronomy 28:33–34A nation which you don’t know will eat the fruit of your ground and all of your work. You will only be oppressed and crushed always,Both describe strangers taking the fruit of someone’s work, leaving the worker deprived of what the labor produced.
Job 20:18He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.Both describe someone losing the benefit of his labor, whether through seizure and plunder or through surrendering his gains.
Judges 6:3–6So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.Both connect labor with threat from outsiders: Israel faces attack after sowing, while the psalm asks that strangers plunder.
Psalm 128:2For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.Both concern the fruit of labor: one asks that strangers take it, while the other promises the worker will enjoy it.
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Encouragement

These words ask for total loss within a prayer addressed to God. They give you no authority to seize another person’s goods; judgment belongs to God.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).