Psalm 109:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let his children be continual vagabonds [as was Cain] and beg; let them seek their bread and be driven far from their ruined homes. [Gen. 4:12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

Common English Bible

Let his children wander aimlessly, begging, driven out of their ruined homes.

Psalm 109:10 Cross References

2 Samuel 3:29

May the bloodguilt fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge, or who has a defiling skin disease, or who holds a spindle, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks food!”

2 Kings 5:27

Therefore the skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he left his presence diseased, as white as snow.

Job 27:14

If their children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and their offspring have not enough to eat.

Job 5:4

Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

Psalm 37:25

I have been young and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.

Psalm 59:15

They roam about for food and growl if they do not get their fill.

Isaiah 16:2

Like fluttering birds, like scattered nestlings, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.