Psalm 59:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Let them wander up and down for meat, And grudge if they be not satisfied.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let them wander up and down for food and tarry all night if they are not satisfied (not getting their fill).

American Standard Version (1901)

They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.

Common English Bible

They roam about for food, and if they don’t get their fill, they stay all night.

Psalm 59:15 Cross References

Job 15:23

They wander abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ They know that a day of darkness is ready at hand;

Psalm 109:10

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

Isaiah 56:11

The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, to their own gain, one and all.

Isaiah 8:21

They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry; when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will curse their king and their gods. They will turn their faces upward,

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Micah 3:5

Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry “Peace” when they have something to eat but declare war against those who put nothing into their mouths.

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lack of everything. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.