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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Psalms 109:9-15 → Deuteronomy 5:9

Allusion

Later text

Psalms 109:9-15BSB

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes. May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor. May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children. May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation. May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out. May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

Earlier text

Deuteronomy 5:9BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Significance

Psalm 109:9-15 invokes generational consequences on the psalmist's enemy — "May his children be fatherless... may the iniquity of his fathers be remembered... may their sins never be blotted out" — echoing the principle articulated in Deuteronomy 5:9: "visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me" (פֹּקֵד עֲוֺן אָבוֹת עַל־בָּנִים, poqed avon avot al-banim). The psalmist applies the Decalogue's generational judgment principle as an imprecatory appeal, asking God to enact against his persecutor the very consequences the second commandment warns about. The shared concept of inherited iniquity (עָוֺן, avon) demonstrates that the psalmist grounds his imprecation in Torah theology rather than personal vindictiveness.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (TOSK lists the second-commandment generational-visitation parallel Exodus 20:5 — verbally identical to Deuteronomy 5:9 — and Leviticus 26:39 at Psalm 109:8-15)
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme