Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes.
New American Standard Bible
And let them
King James Version
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Holman Bible
searching for food far
A Conservative Version
Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places.
American Standard Version
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
Amplified
Let his children wander and beg;
Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.
Bible in Basic English
Let his children be wanderers, looking to others for their food; let them be sent away from the company of their friends.
Darby Translation
Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;
Julia Smith Translation
And shaking his sons shall wander about, and they asked and sought from their desolations.
King James 2000
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins.
Modern King James verseion
Let his sons always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their ruins.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread; let them seek it also out of desolate places.
NET Bible
May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
New Heart English Bible
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
The Emphasized Bible
Let his children, wander about, and beg, Let them be driven out of heir ruins;
Webster
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
World English Bible
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
Youngs Literal Translation
And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
Themes
Beggars » General references to
Beggars » The children of the wicked
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 109:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer Against An Enemy
9 May his children become fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes. 11 May creditors seize all his possessions, and may foreigners loot the property he has acquired.
Cross References
Psalm 37:25
I once was young and now I am old, but I have not seen a righteous person forsaken or his descendants begging for bread.
Genesis 4:12-14
Whenever you work the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you, and you'll wander throughout the earth as a fugitive."
2 Samuel 3:29
May judgment rest on Joab's head and on his father's entire household. May Joab's dynasty never be without one who has a discharge, who is a leper, who walks with a cane, who commits suicide, or who lacks food!"
2 Kings 5:27
Naaman's leprosy will plague you and your descendants forever!" As he left Elisha's presence, he was infected with leprosy that looked like white snow.
Job 24:8-12
They are wet from mountain rains; without shelter, they cling to a rock.
Job 30:3-9
Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.
Psalm 59:15
They scavenge for food. If they find nothing, they become hungry and growl.
Isaiah 16:2
Like fluttering birds, like an abandoned nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.