New American Standard Bible 1995
Psalms 109:10
10Let his 1children wander about and beg; And let them 2seek sustenance 3far from their ruined homes.
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; Let another take his office. 9Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow. Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance 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 none to extend lovingkindness to him, Nor any to be gracious to his fatherless children.
Read all of Psalms 109Psalms 109:10 word by word
וְנ֤וֹעַ יָנ֣וּעוּ בָנָ֣יו וְשִׁאֵ֑לוּ וְ֝דָרְשׁ֗וּ מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 109:10
- Psalms 37:25I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken Or his descendants begging bread.
- Genesis 4:12When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”
- 2 Samuel 3:29May it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who takes hold of a distaff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”
- 2 Kings 5:27Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
- Job 24:8They are wet with the mountain rains And hug the rock for want of a shelter.
- Job 30:3From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
- Isaiah 16:2Then, like fleeing birds or scattered nestlings, The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the 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
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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
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