KJV King James Version
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
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Psalm 109:10
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
WEB World English Bible
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
ASV American Standard Version
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
Surrounding context — Psalm 109
7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
8 Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.
11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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Psalm 37:25I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.Genesis 4:12-14When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.2 Kings 5:27The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.Psalm 59:15Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.Isaiah 16:2For it shall be, [that], as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, [so] the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.Job 30:3-9For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.2 Samuel 3:29Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.Job 24:8-12They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
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