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Psalms 109:10

8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
KJV
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
WEB
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
ASV
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.
DARBY
Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places;
BLB
And let his sons wander continually and beg, and let them seek sustenance from their desolate places!
ÅB
og la hans barn flakke omkring og tigge, og la dem gå som tiggere fra sine ødelagte hjem!
OTB
Måtte hans barn vandre og søke hjelp;
Og måtte de lete etter næring langt fra sine ødelagte hjem.
B1930
og la hans barn flakke omkring og tigge, og la dem gå som tiggere fra sine ødelagte hjem!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 37:25

    I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

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  • Genesis 4:12–14

    When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

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  • Isaiah 16:2

    For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

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  • 2 Kings 5:27

    The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

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  • Psalms 59:15

    Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

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  • Job 24:8–12

    They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

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  • Job 30:3–9

    For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

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  • 2 Samuel 3:29

    Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

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