Psalm 59:15

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Summary

Psalm 59:15

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

Wander

For meat

Matthew 24:7

If

Isaiah 56:11

Micah 3:5

Bible References

Wander

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

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.

For meat

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

The tongue of the infant cleaves
To the roof of its mouth because of thirst;
The little ones ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.

We get our bread at the risk of our lives

Because of the sword in the wilderness.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.

If

And the dogs are

greedy, they are not satisfied.

And they are shepherds who have no understanding;
They have all turned to their own way,
Each one to his unjust gain, to the last one.

Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray;
When they have something to bite with their teeth,
They cry, “Peace,”
But against him who puts nothing in their mouths
They declare holy war.