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World English Bible

Psalms 109:10

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Beggars;   Prayer;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Beggars;   The Topic Concordance - Judas Iscariot;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Beg;   Vagabond;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Fatherless;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Beggars;   Vagabond;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Beggar, Begging;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Habitation;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beg;   Vagabond;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Alms;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Begging and Beggars;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
May his children wander as beggars and be driven from their ruined homes.
English Revised Version
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
Update Bible Version
Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.
New Century Version
Make his children wander around, begging for food. Let them be forced out of the ruins in which they live.
New English Translation
May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
Webster's Bible Translation
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
Amplified Bible
Let his children wander and beg; Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.
English Standard Version
May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hise sones tremblinge be born ouer, and begge; and be cast out of her habitaciouns.
Berean Standard Bible
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Contemporary English Version
make his children beg for food and live in the slums.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
May his children be wandering beggars, foraging for food from their ruined homes.
Darby Translation
Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places;
Easy-to-Read Version
Make his children wander around as beggars, forced from homes that lie in ruins.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
King James Version (1611)
Let his children bee continually vagabonds, & begge: let them seeke their bread also out of their desolate places.
New Life Bible
May his children go around begging. And may they look for food far from their destroyed homes.
New Revised Standard
May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Let his children be vagabounds & beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.
George Lamsa Translation
Let their children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Good News Translation
May his children be homeless beggars; may they be driven from the ruins they live in!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of heir ruins;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(108-10) Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.
Revised Standard Version
May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let his children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke [foode] out of their barren groundes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations.
Christian Standard Bible®
Let his children wander as beggars,searching for food far from their demolished homes.
Hebrew Names Version
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
King James Version
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Lexham English Bible
and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins.
Literal Translation
and let his sons always beg and wander, and seek food out of their ruins;
Young's Literal Translation
And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let the extorcioner cosume all that he hath, and let straungers spoyle his laboure.
New American Standard Bible
May his children wander about and beg; And may they seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.
New King James Version
Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg;Let them seek their bread [fn] also from their desolate places.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Let his sons wander aimlessly and beg;And let them search for food from their ruined homes.

Contextual Overview

6 Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty. Let his prayer be turned into sin. 8 Let his days be few. Let another take his office. 9 Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins. 11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by Yahweh. Don't let the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

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.


 
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