Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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.

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 fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg their bread; let them seek it also out of desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner consume all that he hath; and let stranger spoil his labour.

Cross References

Psalm 37:25

I have been young, and now am old; and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.

Genesis 4:12-14

For when thou tillest the ground she shall henceforth not give her power unto thee. A vagabond and a renegade shalt thou be upon the earth."

2 Samuel 3:29

It fall therefore on the head of Joab and on all his father's house: that the house of Joab be never without one or other that hath running issues or without lepers and goers on crutches, and that fall on the sword and that lack bread."

2 Kings 5:27

The leprosy therefore of Naaman cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed forever." And he went out from him a leper as white as snow.

Job 24:8-12

So that when the showers in the mountains have rained upon them, and they be all wet, they have none other succour, but to embrace the rock for want of a covering.

Job 30:3-9

For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,

Psalm 59:15

Let them run here and there for meat, and grudge when they have not enough.

Isaiah 16:2

For as for the daughters of Moab, they shall be as a trembling bird, that is put out of her nest: for they shall carry them unto Arnon.

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