Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
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
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.
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 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins. 11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
Cross References
Psalm 37:25
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
Genesis 4:12-14
From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."
2 Samuel 3:29
Let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house. Let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread."
2 Kings 5:27
Therefore the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your seed forever." He went out from his presence a leper, as white as snow.
Job 24:8-12
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.
Job 30:3-9
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Psalm 59:15
They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.
Isaiah 16:2
For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.