Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
They shall wander up and down for food, and tarry 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.
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.
Darby Translation
They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.
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 at evening let them return, let them howl like a dog, and go round about the city. 15 They shall wander up and down for food, and tarry all night if they be not satisfied. 16 But I will sing of thy strength. Yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving kindness in the morning. For thou have been my high tower, and a refuge in the day of my distress.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 15:23
He wanders abroad for bread, [saying], Where is it? He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Psalm 109:10
Let his sons be vagabonds, and beg, and let them seek out of their desolate places.
Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore thou shall serve thine enemies that LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he has destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy 28:53-58
And thou shall eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom LORD thy God has given thee, in the siege and in the distress with which thine enemies shall distress thee.
2 Kings 6:25-29
And there was a great famine in Samaria. And, behold, they besieged it until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.
Job 30:1-7
But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass through it, greatly distressed and hungry. And it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward.
Isaiah 56:11
Yea, the dogs are greedy; they can never have enough. And these are shepherds who cannot understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Lamentations 4:4-5
The tongue of the sucking child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young sons ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.
Lamentations 4:9-10
Those who are slain with the sword are better than those who are slain with hunger, for these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
Lamentations 5:9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Micah 3:5
Thus says LORD concerning the prophets who make my people to err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace. And he who does not put into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
Matthew 24:7-8
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and plagues and earthquakes in places.