Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They shall wander to and fro to eat, though they shall not be satisfied; and they will pass the night
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.
Darby Translation
They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.
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 They shall turn back at evening; they shall make a noise as a dog, and they will surround the city. 15 They shall wander to and fro to eat, though they shall not be satisfied; and they will pass the night 16 And I will sing thy strength; and I will rejoice at morning for thy mercy; for they wert a height to me, and a refuge in the day of straits to me.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 15:23
He wandered about for bread, where he knew that the day of darkness was ready at his hand.
Psalm 109:10
And shaking his sons shall wander about, and they asked and sought from their desolations.
Deuteronomy 28:48
And thou servedst thine enemies which Jehovah shall send forth against thee in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things and he gave a yoke of iron upon thy neck till his destroying thee.
Deuteronomy 28:53-58
And thou atest the fruit of thy belly, the flesh of thy sons and thy daughters, which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, in the distress and in the straitness which thine enemy shall press upon thee:
2 Kings 6:25-29
And a great famine will be in Shomeron: and behold them pressing upon it till the head of an ass was for eighty of silver, and the fourth of a cup of doves dung, for five of silver.
Job 30:1-7
And now the younger than I laughed upon me, which I rejected their fathers to set with the dogs of my flock.
Isaiah 8:21
And passing through it, harshly oppressed and hungry; and it was when he shall be hungry, and they brake forth and cursed against their king and their God, and looked upwards.
Isaiah 56:11
And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity.
Lamentations 4:4-5
The tongue of the suckling adhered to his palate in thirst: the young children asked for bread, none breaking bread to them.
Lamentations 4:9-10
Those wounded by the sword were good above those wounded by famine: these will flow away, being thrust through from the produce of the field.
Lamentations 5:9
With our souls we shall bring our bread from the face of the sword of the desert
Micah 3:5
Thus said Jehovah for the prophets causing my people to wander, and biting with their teeth, and they called, Peace; and who will not give upon their mouth and they consecrated war against him:
Matthew 24:7-8
For nation shall be raised up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines, and plagues, and shakings in places.