Psalms 59:15
(59:16) They will indeed roam about after something to eat, if they be not satisfied, so that they can be at rest.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
In Context
14(59:15) And they will return in the evening; they will howl like dogs, and go round about the city.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thy enemies whom the Lord will send out against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of every thing; and they will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until they 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 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 they who are younger than I in years laugh at me, whose fathers I scorned to put as equals with the dogs of my flocks.
Isaiah 8:21And the [people] shall pass through [the land], hard oppressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they will become enraged, and curse their king and their god, and turn toward on high [for aid].
Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the suckling cleaveth to its palate by reason of thirst: babes ask for bread, there is not one to break it for them.
Lamentations 5:9At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, 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 →