Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins.

New American Standard Bible

Let his children wander about and beg;
And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Let his children wander as beggars,
searching for food far from their demolished homes.

International Standard Version

May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes.

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.

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.

References

Verse Info

Context Readings

Prayer Against An Enemy

9 Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow, 10 and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins. 11 Let [the] creditor seize all that [is] his, and let strangers plunder his property.

Cross References

Psalm 37:25

I was a youth, but I am [now] old; yet I have not seen [the] righteous forsaken or his children {begging for} bread.

Genesis 4:12-14

When you till the ground {it shall no longer yield its strength to you}. You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth."

2 Samuel 3:29

May [the blood] come down on the head of Joab and all the house of his father. {May the house of Joab never lack} [one with] a bodily discharge or [one with] leprosy or [one who] grasps the distaff or [one who] falls by the sword or [one who is] lacking food."

2 Kings 5:27

The skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your offspring forever." Then he went out from before him having a skin disease like the snow.

Job 24:8-12

They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains, and they cling to the rock {without} refuge.

Job 30:3-9

Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing [in the] dry region [in the] darkness of desolation and waste.

Psalm 59:15

As for them, they wander for food. If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night.

Isaiah 16:2

And this shall be: like a bird fleeing [from] a thrust away nest shall be the daughters of Moab [at the] fords of Arnon.

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