Psalms 109 · Verse 10

Psalms 109:10

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Psalms 109:10, King James Version

Psalms 109:10 in other translations

BSBMay his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
WEBLet his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
ASVLet his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
YLTAnd wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
DARBYLet his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;
BBELet his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
WebsterLet his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

What does Psalms 109:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 109:9-10

9-10. Let his family share the punishment, his children be as wandering beggars to prowl in their desolate homes, a greedy and relentless creditor grasp his substance, his labor, or the fruit of it, enure to strangers and not his heirs, and his unprotected, fatherless children fall in want, so that his posterity shall utterly fail.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 Set 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 109:6-20

The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on some of his enemies, to warn others. When men reject the salvation of Christ, even their prayers are numbered among their sins. See what hurries some to shameful deaths, and brings the families and estates of others to ruin; makes them and theirs despicable and hateful, and brings poverty, shame, and misery upon their posterity: it is sin, that…

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Psalms 109:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְנ֤וֹעַve.No.a'and really <wander>H5128
יָנ֣וּעוּya.Nu.'umay they wanderH5128
בָנָ֣יוva.Navchildren hisH1121
וְשִׁאֵ֑לוּve.shi.'E.luand they will begH7592
וְ֝דָרְשׁ֗וּve.da.re.Shuand they will seekH1875
מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶֽם\׃me.cha.re.vo.tei.Hemaway from ruins theirH2723

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 109:10

  • Psalms 37:25

    I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

  • Genesis 4:12-14

    When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

  • Isaiah 16:2

    For 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.

  • 2 Kings 5:27

    The 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.

  • Psalms 59:15

    Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

  • Job 24:8-12

    They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. …

  • Job 30:3-9

    For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. …

  • 2 Samuel 3:29

    Let 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
37:25; Ge 4:12-14; 2Sa 3:29; 2Ki 5:27; Job 24:8-12; 30:3-9
Isa 16:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 109:9

    Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

  • Psalms 109:10

    Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

  • Psalms 109:11

    Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

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Psalms 109:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y anden sus hijos vagabundos, y mendiguen; y procuren su pan lejos de sus desolados hogares.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Que ses fils soient vagabonds, et qu’ils mendient, et qu’ils aillent quêtant loin de leurs demeures en ruines.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und mögen seine Söhne umherschweifen und betteln und fern von ihren verwüsteten Wohnungen nach Brot suchen!