12 May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children!
12 May there be no one around to help him out, no one willing to give his orphans a break.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy to him, Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
12 Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 109:12
Commentary on Psalm 109:6-20
(Read Psalm 109:6-20)
The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on some of his enemies, to warn others. When men reject the salvation of Christ, even their prayers are numbered among their sins. See what hurries some to shameful deaths, and brings the families and estates of others to ruin; makes them and theirs despicable and hateful, and brings poverty, shame, and misery upon their posterity: it is sin, that mischievous, destructive thing. And what will be the effect of the sentence, "Go, ye cursed," upon the bodies and souls of the wicked! How it will affect the senses of the body, and the powers of the soul, with pain, anguish, horror, and despair! Think on these things, sinners, tremble and repent.