Psalms 59:15
They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
In Context
14At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48therefore you will serve your enemies whom the LORD sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.
2 Kings 6:25There 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 30:1“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
Isaiah 8:21They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse their king and their God. They will turn their faces upward,
Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.
Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in 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 →