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Psalms 59:15

13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

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

16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.

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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
They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
KJV
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
WEB
They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
ASV
They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
DARBY
They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.
BLB
They wander up and down for food; and if they are not satisfied, then they grumble.
ÅB
De farer omkring etter mat; om de ikke blir mette, blir de slik natten over.
OTB
De vandrer omkring for mat,
Og knurrer hvis de ikke blir mette.
B1930
De farer omkring efter mat; om de ikke blir mette, blir de således natten over.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Job 15:23

    He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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  • Psalms 109:10

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

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  • Job 30:1–7

    But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

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  • Lamentations 5:9

    We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

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  • Isaiah 56:11

    Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

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  • Matthew 24:7–8

    For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

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  • Lamentations 4:9–10

    They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

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  • Isaiah 8:21

    And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

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