Psalms 59:15
They shall wander up and down for food, and tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
In Context
14And at evening let them return, let them howl like a dog, and go round about the city.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48therefore thou shall serve thine enemies that LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he has destroyed thee.
2 Kings 6:25And there was a great famine in Samaria. And, behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.
Job 30:1But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass through it, greatly distressed and hungry. And it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward.
Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the sucking child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young sons ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 59:9-17
Confidence in God. 8 But thou, O Lord , shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision. 9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence. 10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies. 11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield. 12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.… Read the whole commentary →