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Psalms 59:15

They wander about looking for food 1 and they growl like a dog if they are not satisfied. 1

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

14At evening they return, 1 howling like dogs going around the city. 1

16But I will sing about your strength, 1 and in the morning I will sing about your steadfast love! 1 For you have been my high tower 1 and a refuge in the day of my distress. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:48therefore will you serve the enemies that Yahweh will send against you; you will serve them in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in poverty. He will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he destroys you.

2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. 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 30:1Now those who are younger than I have nothing but mockery for me— 1 these young men whose fathers I would have refused to allow to work beside the dogs of my flock. 1

Isaiah 8:21They will pass through the land greatly distressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they will become angry 1 and curse their king and their God, as they turn their faces upward. 1

Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the nursing baby sticks to the roof of his mouth by thirst; 1 the children ask for food, but there is none for them. 1

Lamentations 5:9We get our bread only by risking our lives, 1 because of the sword in the wilderness. 1

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 →

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Study Psalms 59:15

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