Psalms 109:10

Psalms 109:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
• New International Version (NIV)May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.
• English Standard Version (ESV)May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!
• New King James Version (NKJV)Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

Context of Psalms 109:10

8Let his days be few; And let another take his office. 9Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow. Let his children wander and beg; Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes. 11Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder the product of his labor. 12Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, Nor let anyone be gracious to his fatherless children.

Psalms 109:10 word by word

וְנ֤וֹעַ יָנ֣וּעוּ בָנָ֣יו וְשִׁאֵ֑לוּ וְ֝דָרְשׁ֗וּ מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Let his childrenבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• be continuallyנוּעַnûa‛ · to shakeH5128
• and begשָׁאַלshâ'al shâ'êl · to askH7592
• let them seekדָּרַשׁdârash · to seekH1875
• also out of their desolate placesחׇרְבָּהchorbâh · desolationH2723

Cross-references for Psalms 109:10

• Psalms 37:25I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned Or his descendants pleading for bread.
• Genesis 4:12When you cultivate the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength [it will resist producing good crops] for you; you shall be a fugitive and a vagabond [roaming aimlessly] on the earth [in perpetual exile without a home, a degraded outcast].”
• 2 Samuel 3:29Let the guilt fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house (family); and may there never disappear from the house of Joab one who suffers with a discharge or one who is a leper or one who walks with a crutch [being unfit for war], or one who falls by the sword, or one who lacks food.”
• 2 Kings 5:27Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So Gehazi departed from his presence, a leper as white as snow.
• Job 24:8They are wet from the rain of the mountains And cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
• Job 30:3They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry and barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation.
• Isaiah 16:2For like wandering birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the [river] Arnon.

Commentaries on Psalms 109:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Set 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg - Let them continually wander about with no home - no fixed habitation. Let them be compelled to ask their daily food at the hand of charity. Here we enter on a part of the psalm which is more difficult to be reconciled with a proper feeling than the portions which have been considered. It is, indeed, a frequent consequence of crime that the children of those who are punished “are” vagabonds and beggars…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-20Verses 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 mischievous, destructive thing. And…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-11Family members of people guilty of capital crimes sometimes died with the offender (Numbers 16:1–33; Joshua 7:1–25) or had their property taken away (1 Kings 21:13–16).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-109-10. 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.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 109:10

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Beggars
• Prayer
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Beg
• Vagabond
• Beg; Beggar; Begging
• God
• Psalms, Book of
• Beggar, Begging

Commentaries on Psalms 109

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings