Parallel Verses

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.

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 become fatherless and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children wander about and beg;
And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.
11 Let a creditor take everything he owns. Let strangers steal what he has worked for.

Cross References

Psalm 37:25

I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.

Genesis 4:12-14

When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer (vagabond) on the earth.

2 Samuel 3:29

Let the punishment for it fall on Joab and all his family! In every generation may there be some man in his family who has gonorrhea or a dreaded skin disease or is fit only to do a woman's work or is killed in battle or does not have enough to eat!

2 Kings 5:27

Naaman's leprosy will come upon you. You and your descendants will have it from generation to generation! When Gehazi left, he had the disease. His skin was as white as snow.

Job 24:8-12

They are wet with the rain of the mountains. They cling to the rock in search of shelter.

Job 30:3-9

Shriveled up from need and hunger, they gnaw at the dry and barren ground during the night.

Psalm 59:15

They wander around to find food. If they are not full enough, they will stay all night.

Isaiah 16:2

Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.

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