Psalms 59:15
They wander about looking for food 1 and they growl like a dog if they are not satisfied. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
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
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 →