Psalms 59:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let them wander up and down for food, and grumble if they are not satisfied.

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  • Job 15:23 : 23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
  • Ps 109:10 : 10 Let his children be continually wanderers and beg; let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.
  • Isa 8:21 : 21 And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory.
  • Lam 4:4-5 : 4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them. 5 Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
  • Lam 4:9-9 : 9 Those slain by the sword are better than those who die by hunger; for these waste away, stricken for want of the fruits of the field. 10 The hands of the compassionate women have cooked their own children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Lam 5:9 : 9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
  • Matt 24:7-8 : 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
  • Job 30:1-7 : 1 But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Indeed, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age has perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness in former times desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food. 5 They were driven out from among men, they cried after them as after a thief; 6 To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. 7 Among the bushes they brayed, under the nettles they gathered together.
  • Deut 28:48 : 48 Therefore you shall serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.
  • Deut 28:53-58 : 53 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you: 54 So that the man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he has nothing left him in the siege, and in the distress, with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her children who she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and distress, with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates. 58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD YOUR GOD;
  • 2 Kgs 6:25-29 : 25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a quarter of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the LORD does not help you, how shall I help you? from the threshing floor, or from the winepress? 28 And the king said to her, What troubles you? And she answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him: and she has hidden her son.

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  • Ps 59:6-7
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    6They return at evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go around the city.

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  • Isa 8:21
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    21And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

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    5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

  • Job 38:39-41
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    39Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40When they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thickets?

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    3For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness in former times desolate and waste.

  • Job 15:23
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    23He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Amos 8:12
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    12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

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    11Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory.

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    5They were driven out from among men, they cried after them as after a thief;

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    21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

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    4They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to live in.

    5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

  • Ps 69:24-25
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    24Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.

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  • Isa 5:29-30
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    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.

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    22Let their table become a snare before them, and what should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

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    17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

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    17That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.

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    10They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

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    30They were not estranged from their desire. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

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    20And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand and not be satisfied; they will eat every man the flesh of his own arm.

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    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, waiting for my life.

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    4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread? They have not called upon God.

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    10The young lions lack and suffer hunger: but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

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    5Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

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    14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.

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    18How the animals groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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    17Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

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    10They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

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    27These all wait for You, that You may give them their food in due season.

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    4Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?

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    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.