Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Holman Bible
they growl if they are not satisfied.
International Standard Version
They scavenge for food. If they find nothing, they become hungry and growl.
A Conservative Version
They shall wander up and down for food, and tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
American Standard Version
They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
Amplified
They wander around for food [to devour]
And growl all night if they are not satisfied.
Bible in Basic English
Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
Julia Smith Translation
They shall wander to and fro to eat, though they shall not be satisfied; and they will pass the night
King James 2000
Let them wander up and down for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As for them, they wander for food. If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night.
Modern King James verseion
Let them wander up and down for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let them run here and there for meat, and grudge when they have not enough.
NET Bible
They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.
New Heart English Bible
They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.
The Emphasized Bible
They, may prowl about for food, - And, if they are not satisfied, then let them whine!
Webster
Let them wander up and down for food, and grudge if they are not satisfied.
World English Bible
They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.
Youngs Literal Translation
They -- they wander for food, If they are not satisfied -- then they murmur.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 59:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Our Stronghold
14 And in the evening they shall return, they shall howl like a dog, and go round about the city. 15 They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied. 16 But as for me, I will sing of thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving-kindness in the morning; for thou hast been to me a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of my trouble.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 15:23
He wandereth abroad for bread, where may it be? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Psalm 109:10
Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;
Deuteronomy 28:48
thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy 28:53-58
And in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee, thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
2 Kings 6:25-29
And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.
Job 30:1-7
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass through it, hard pressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass when they are hungry, they will fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and will gaze upward:
Isaiah 56:11
and the dogs are greedy, they know not to be satisfied, and these are shepherds that know not how to discern: they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, even to the last of them:
Lamentations 4:4-5
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them.
Lamentations 4:9-10
The slain with the sword are happier than the slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations 5:9
We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Micah 3:5
Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that cause my people to err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace! but whoso putteth not into their mouths they prepare war against him:
Matthew 24:7-8
For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.