Psalm 109:11 {108:11}
Good News Translation
May his creditors take away all his property, and may strangers get everything he worked for.

New Revised Standard Version
May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.

Contemporary English Version
"Let the people he owes take everything he owns. Give it all to strangers.

New American Bible
May the usurer snare all he owns, strangers plunder all he earns.

Douay-Rheims Bible
May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.

extortioner

Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

Job 18:9-19 The sole of his foot shall be held in a snare, and thirst shall burn against him. . . .

Job 20:18 He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.

strangers

Deuteronomy 28:29,33,34,50,51 And mayst thou grope at midday as the blind is wont to grope in the dark, and not make straight thy ways. And mayst thou at all times suffer wrong, and be oppressed with violence, and mayst thou have no one to deliver thee. . . .

Judges 6:3-6 And when Israel had sown, Madian and Amalec, and the rest of the eastern nations, came up: . . .

Context
The Song of the Slandered
10Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings. 11May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.12May there be none to help him: nor none to pity his fatherless offspring.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:7
And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your brethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them,

Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

Job 20:15
The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.

Psalm 128:2
For thou shalt eat the labours of thy hands: blessed art thou, and it shall be well with thee.

Isaiah 1:7
Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.

Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

Ezekiel 7:21
And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it.

Psalm 109:10
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