Psalms 59:15

In 11 translations

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.for meat: Heb. to eatand grudge…: or, if they be not satisfied, then they will stay all night

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.

LSV

They wander for food, || If they are not satisfied—then they murmur.

YLT

They — they wander for food, If they are not satisfied — then they murmur.

DBY

They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.

DRC58:16

They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.

GNV

They shall runne here and there for meate: and surely they shall not be satisfied, though they tary all night.

JPS59:16

They wander up and down to devour, and tarry all night if they have not their fill.

LXXE58:16

They shall be scattered hither and thither for meat; and if they be not satisfied, they shall even murmur.

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Original-language editions

WLC59:16

הֵ֭מָּה ינועון לֶאֱכֹ֑ל אִם־לֹ֥א יִ֝שְׂבְּע֗וּ וַיָּלִֽינוּ׃KJV:Ps.59.15Read aloud as (qere): יְנִיע֣וּן

LXX-Br58:16

Αὐτοὶ διασκορπισθήσονται τοῦ φαγεῖν, ἐὰν δὲ μὴ χορτασθῶσι, καὶ γογγύσουσιν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 15:23He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
• Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
• Job 30:1–7“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs. What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them? Gaunt from poverty and…
• Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
• Deuteronomy 28:48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
• Matthew 24:7–8Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.
• Lamentations 4:9–10Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce. The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their…
• Deuteronomy 28:53–58Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you. The most gentle and refined man among…
• 2 Kings 6:25–29So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver. As the king of…
• Micah 3:5This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
• Isaiah 56:11Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:
• Isaiah 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
• Lamentations 4:4–5The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any. Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson…

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