Psalms 59:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.”
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BSBPD
“They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“They--they wander for food, If they are not satisfied--then they murmur.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 59:15 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:53Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
- 2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
- Job 15:23He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
- Job 30:1“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
- Psalms 109:10May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
- Isaiah 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
- Isaiah 56:11Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:
- Lamentations 4:4The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
- Lamentations 4:9Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
- Lamentations 5:9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
- Micah 3:5This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
- Matthew 24:7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
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