Psalms 59:15
They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
In Context
14And in the evening they shall return, they shall howl like a dog, and go round about the city.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
2 Kings 6:25And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.
Job 30:1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass when they are hungry, they will fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and will gaze upward:
Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them.
Lamentations 5:9We have to get our bread at the risk 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 →