the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Psalms 109:10
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Let his sons wander aimlessly and beg;And let them search for food from their ruined homes.
Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Let his children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke [foode] out of their barren groundes.
Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places;
Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg;Let them seek their bread [fn] also from their desolate places.
and let his sons always beg and wander, and seek food out of their ruins;
Make his children wander around as beggars, forced from homes that lie in ruins.
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
Let his children bee continually vagabonds, & begge: let them seeke their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extorcioner cosume all that he hath, and let straungers spoyle his laboure.
Let his children wander and beg; Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
make his children beg for food and live in the slums.
May his children be wandering beggars, foraging for food from their ruined homes.
Let his children be vagabounds & beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.
Let their children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
May his children wander as beggars and be driven from their ruined homes.
May his children go around begging. And may they look for food far from their destroyed homes.
Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations.
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit.
Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of heir ruins;
(108-10) Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins.
May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
May his children wander about and beg; And may they seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Make his children wander around, begging for food. Let them be forced out of the ruins in which they live.
May his children be homeless beggars; may they be driven from the ruins they live in!
Let his children wander as beggars, searching for food far from their demolished homes.
Hise sones tremblinge be born ouer, and begge; and be cast out of her habitaciouns.
And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Psalms 37:25, Genesis 4:12-14, 2 Samuel 3:29, 2 Kings 5:27, Job 24:8-12, Job 30:3-9, Isaiah 16:2
Reciprocal: Genesis 4:14 - fugitive Job 15:23 - wandereth Job 18:12 - hungerbitten Job 20:10 - seek Job 30:5 - driven Psalms 59:15 - wander Acts 19:13 - vagabond
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg,.... Wander from place to place, begging their bread: this is denied of the children of good men in David's time, Psalms 37:25 yet was threatened to the children of Eli, 1 Samuel 2:36 and was very likely literally true of the children of Judas; and was certainly the case of multitudes of the children of the Jews, the posterity of them that crucified Christ, at the time of their destruction by the Romans; when great numbers were dispersed, and wandered about in various countries, as vagabonds, begging their bread from door to door; which is reckoned a by them a great affliction, and very distressing.
Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places; either describing, as Kimchi thinks, the miserable cottages, forlorn and desolate houses, in which they lived, and from whence they went out to everyone that passed by, to ask relief of them; or it may be rendered,
because of their desolate places b; or, "after them"; so the Targum, "after their desolation was made"; when their grand house was left desolate, their temple, as our Lord said it should, and was, Matthew 23:38, and all their other houses in Jerusalem and in Judea; then were they obliged to seek their bread of others elsewhere, and by begging. The Syriac version wants this verse.
a Mifchar Hapeninim apud Buxtorf. Florileg. Heb. p. 262, 263. b So De Dieu, Gejerus, and some in Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg - Let them continually wander about with no home - no fixed habitation. Let them be compelled to ask their daily food at the hand of charity. Here we enter on a part of the psalm which is more difficult to be reconciled with a proper feeling than the portions which have been considered. It is, indeed, a frequent consequence of crime that the children of those who are punished “are” vagabonds and beggars, but this is not a necessary consequence; and there “seems” here, therefore, to be a mixture of personal feeling, or a feeling of revenge. This runs through the remaining portion of the imprecatory part of the psalm. I confess that it is difficult to explain this without admitting that the expressions are a record only of what actually occurred in the mind of a man, truly pious, but not perfect - a man who thus, to illustrate the workings of the mind even when the general character was holy, was allowed to record his own feelings, though wrong, just as he would record the conduct of another, or his own conduct, though wrong, as a simple matter of fact - a record of what actually was felt. The “record” may be exactly correct; the sentiment recorded may have been wholly incapable of vindication. See the General Introduction, Section 6 (6).
Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places - In places uninhabited by man; in barren regions; in deserts: let them be compelled to live on the scanty food which they may pick up there - the roots, or the wild fruits, which will simply keep them alive. See the notes at Job 30:4.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 109:10. Let his children - beg — The father having lost his office, the children must necessarily be destitute; and this is the hardest lot to which any can become subject, after having been born to the expectation of an ample fortune.
