Psalms 59:15
They shall wander up and down for food,and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.
New Heart English 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 let them return.Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron 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 would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Isaiah 8:21They will pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
Lamentations 4:4The nursing infant's tongue sticks to the roof of his mouth for thirst.The young children ask for bread, but no one gives to them.HEY
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 →