John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow." — Psalms 109:9 (ASV)
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow .
] This sometimes is the case of good men, who leave widows and fatherless children, whom the Lord shows mercy to; being the Father of the fatherless, and the Judge of the widow, (Psalms 68:5) , but sometimes it is threatened and comes as a judgment, when the Lord shows no mercy and favour to them, (Exodus 22:24) (Isaiah 9:17) .
And this is the case here, which very probably was literally fulfilled in Judas, who might have a wife and children; since it looks as if the other apostles had, and certain it is that one of them had a wife, even Peter, in the times of Christ; see (1 Corinthians 9:5) (Matthew 8:14) .
And this was verified in the people of the Jews; whom the Lord divorced from himself, and wrote a "loammi" upon them, and left them as orphans and fatherless, (Hosea 1:9) .
This will never be the case of Christ's people, or the Christian church, (John 14:18) , though it will be of the antichristian one, (Revelation 18:7Revelation 18:8) .