Parallel Verses
Amplified
Let his children wander and beg;
Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.
New American Standard Bible
And let them
King James Version
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Holman Bible
searching for food far
International Standard Version
May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes.
A Conservative Version
Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places.
American Standard Version
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
Bible in Basic English
Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
Darby Translation
Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;
Julia Smith Translation
And shaking his sons shall wander about, and they asked and sought from their desolations.
King James 2000
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins.
Modern King James verseion
Let his sons always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their ruins.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread; let them seek it also out of desolate places.
NET Bible
May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
New Heart English Bible
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
The Emphasized Bible
Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of heir ruins;
Webster
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
World English Bible
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
Youngs Literal Translation
And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
Themes
Beggars » General references to
Beggars » The children of the wicked
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 109:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against An Enemy
9
Let his children be fatherless
And his wife a widow.
Let his children wander and beg;
Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.
Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder the product of his labor.
Cross References
Psalm 37:25
I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned
Or his descendants pleading for bread.
Genesis 4:12-14
When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength [it will resist producing good crops] for you; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond [roaming aimlessly] on the earth [in perpetual exile without a home, a degraded outcast].”
2 Samuel 3:29
Let
2 Kings 5:27
Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So Gehazi departed from his presence, a leper as white as snow.
Job 24:8-12
“They are wet from the rain of the mountains
And cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
Job 30:3-9
“They are gaunt with want and famine;
They gnaw the dry and barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation.
Psalm 59:15
They wander around for food [to devour]
And growl all night if they are not satisfied.
Isaiah 16:2
For like wandering birds or scattered nestlings,
The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the [river] Arnon.