Psalms 59 · Verse 15

Psalms 59:15

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Psalms 59:15, King James Version

Psalms 59:15 in other translations

BSBThey scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
WEBThey shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
ASVThey shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
YLTThey--they wander for food, If they are not satisfied--then they murmur.
DARBYThey shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.
BBELet them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
WebsterLet them wander up and down for food, and grudge if they are not satisfied.

What does Psalms 59:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 59:14-15

14-15. Meanwhile let the rapacious dogs prowl, they cannot hurt the pious; yea, they shall wander famished and sleepless.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 59:8-17

It is our wisdom and duty, in times of danger and difficulty, to wait upon God; for he is our defence, in whom we shall be safe. It is very comfortable to us, in prayer, to look to God as the God of our mercy, the Author of all good in us, and the Giver of all good to us. The wicked can never be satisfied, which is the greatest misery in a poor condition. A contented man, if he has not what he would have, yet he…

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Psalms 59:15 in the original Hebrew

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הֵ֭מָּהHe.mahtheyH1992
יְנִיע֣וּןye.ni.'Unthey make wander about !H5128
לֶאֱכֹ֑לle.'e.Kholto eatH398
אִם\־'im-ifH518
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
יִ֝שְׂבְּע֗וּyis.be.'Uthey are satisfiedH7646
וַיָּלִֽינוּ\׃vai.ya.Li.nuand they passed [the] nightH3885

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Cross references for Psalms 59:15

  • Job 15:23

    He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Psalms 109:10

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

  • Job 30:1-7

    But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 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. …

  • Lamentations 5:9

    We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Isaiah 56:11

    Yea, 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 quarter.

  • Matthew 24:7-8

    For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

  • Lamentations 4:9-10

    They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Isaiah 8:21

    And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead 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.

  • Micah 3:5

    Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

  • 2 Kings 6:25-29

    And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver. And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress? And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. …

  • Deuteronomy 28:48

    Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

  • Deuteronomy 28:53-58

    And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: So that the man that 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: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure 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, …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
wander.
109:10; Job 15:23; 30:1-7; Isa 8:21
for meat. Heb. to eat.
De 28:48,53-58; 2Ki 6:25-29; La 4:4,5,9,10; 5:9; Mt 24:7,8
grudge, etc. or, if they be not satisfied, then they willstay all night. if.
Isa 56:11; Mic 3:5

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Context

  • Psalms 59:14

    And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

  • Psalms 59:15

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

  • Psalms 59:16

    But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

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Psalms 59:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Anden ellos errantes para hallar qué comer: y si no se saciaren, murmuren.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ils reviendront le soir, ils hurleront comme un chien, et feront le tour de la ville.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Sie schweifen umher nach Speise; sie übernachten, wenn sie auch nicht satt sind.