Psalms 59:15

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Let them runne here and there for meate: and go to bed if they be not satisfied.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיָשׁ֣וּבוּ לָ֭עֶרֶב יֶהֱמ֥וּ כַכָּ֗לֶב וִיס֥וֹבְבוּ עִֽיר׃

Transliteration

And they yāšûbû in the ʿereb they yehĕmû like the kāleb and they yĕsôbĕbû ʿîr.

Grammar Details

• *yāšûbû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd plural with conjunction wə- - and they return
• *ʿereb*: masculine noun with preposition lə- - at evening
• *yehĕmû*: Qal imperfect, 3rd plural - they growl/howl
• *kāleb*: masculine singular noun with preposition kə- - like a dog
• *yĕsôbĕbû*: Polel imperfect, 3rd plural with conjunction wə- - and they go around
• *ʿîr*: feminine singular noun - city

Word Meanings

• *yehĕmû*: growl/howl/make noise/moan
• *yĕsôbĕbû*: go around/surround/prowl around

Referenced Verses

• Job 15:23 : 23 He wandreth abrode for bread where it is, knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande.
• Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke foode out of their barren groundes.
• Isa 8:21 : 21 And they shall wander thorowe this lande hardly besteade and hungry, and when they suffer hunger, they wyll be out of pacience, and curse their king and their God, and shall loke vpwarde and downewarde to the earth,
• Isa 56:11 : 11 They are shamelesse dogges that be neuer satisfied: The sheepheardes also in like maner haue no vnderstandyng, but euery man turneth his owne way, euery one after his owne couetousnesse with all his power.
• Lam 4:4-5 : 4 The tongues of the sucking chyldren cleaue to the roofe of their mouthes for very thyrst: the young chyldren aske bread, but there is no man that geueth it them. 5 They that were wont to fare delicatelye perishe in the streetes: they that afore were brought vp in purple, make nowe muche of doung.
• Lam 4:9-9 : 9 They that be slayne with the sworde, are happier then such as dye of hunger, and perishe away famishing for the fruites of the fielde. 10 The women (whiche of nature are pitifull) haue sodden their owne chyldren with their hands, that they might be their meate in the miserable destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Lam 5:9 : 9 We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.
• Mic 3:5 : 5 Thus saith the Lorde concerning the prophetes that deceaue my people and bite them with their teeth, and crye peace: but if a man put not into their mouthes, they prepare warre against him.
• Matt 24:7-8 : 7 Nation shall ryse agaynst nation, and realme agaynst realme: and there shalbe pestilence, and famine, and earthquakes, in certayne places. 8 All these are the begynnynges of sorowes.
• Job 30:1-7 : 1 But nowe they that are younger then I haue me in derision: yea euen they whose fathers I would haue thought scorne to haue set with the dogges of my cattell. 2 For wherto might the strength of their handes haue serued me? for the time was but lost among them. 3 For very miserie and hunger they fled into the wildernesse, a darke place, horrible and waste, 4 Plucking vp nettles among the busshes, and the iuniper rootes for their meate. 5 And when they were dryuen foorth, men cryed after them as it had ben afafter a thiefe. 6 Their dwelling was in the cleftes of brookes, yea in the caues and dennes of the earth. 7 Among the busshes went they about crying, and vnder the thornes they gathered them selues together.
• Deut 28:48 : 48 Therfore shalt thou serue thyne enemie whiche the Lorde shall sende vpon thee, in hunger, and thirst, in nakednes, and in neede of all thyng: and he shall put a yoke of iron vpon thy necke, vntyll he haue brought thee to naught.
• Deut 28:53-58 : 53 And thou shalt eate the fruite of thine owne body, the fleshe of thy sonnes, and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath geuen thee, in that straitnesse and siege, wherewith thyne enemie shall inclose thee. 54 So that it shall greeue the man (that is tender and exceeding delicate among you) to loke on his brother, and vpon his wyfe that lieth in his bosome, and on the remnaunt of his chyldren which he hath yet left, 55 For feare of geuyng vnto any of them of the fleshe of his chyldren, whom he shall eate: because he hath nothyng left hym in that straitnesse and siege, wherwith thine enemie shall besiege thee in all thy cities. 56 Yea, and the woman that is so tender and delicate, that she dare not aduenture to set the sole of her foote vpon the grounde, for softnesse and tendernesse, shalbe greeued to loke on her husbande that lieth in her bosome, & on her sonne, and on her daughter, 57 And on her afterbyrth that is come out from betweene her feete, and her chyldren whiche she shall beare: For when all thinges lacke, she shall eate them secretly, duryng the siege & straitnesse wherewith thyne enemies shall besiege thee in thy cities. 58 If thou wylt not kepe and do all the wordes of this lawe that are written in this booke, and feare this glorious and fearefull name, The Lorde thy God:
• 2 Kgs 6:25-29 : 25 But there was a great dearth in Samaria: and beholde, they besieged it, vntill an asses head was sold for fourescore siluer pence, and the fourth part of a cab of doues doung for fiue peeces of siluer. 26 And as the king of Israel was goyng vpon the wal, there cryed a woman vnto him, saying: Help me my lord O king. 27 He sayde: If the Lorde do not succour thee, wherwith can I helpe thee? with the barne, or with the wine presse? 28 And the king sayde vnto her: What wilt thou? She aunswered: Yonder woman sayd vnto me, Bring thy sonne, that we may eate him to day, and we will eate myne to morowe. 29 And so we dressed my sonne, and dyd eate him: And I sayde to her the other day, bring thy sonne, that we may eate him: And she hath hyd her sonne.