Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
- BSB May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
- NKJV Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
- NASB May there be none to extend kindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children.
- NLT Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children.
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Cross-references · 9
- Matt 27:25All the people answered, “May his blood be on us, and on our children!”
- Luke 6:38“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
- Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
- Ps 137:8–9Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.
- Job 5:4His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
- Luke 11:50–51that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
- Isa 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
- Isa 9:17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
- Isa 13:18Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
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