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Psalms 59:15
They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses God, contrasting the enemies’ evening prowling with his own morning declaration of trust in the Lord as a fortress. The words — יְנִיעוּ (ye.ni.'U) = they make wander about. The thread — The motif of wandering for sustenance appears in Job 15:23 and Psalms 109:10. Why it lands — The text demands recognition that restless, insatiable opposition cannot override the stability of divine refuge.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Cross-references
- Job 15:23 He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.
- Psalms 109:10 May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
- Job 30:1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
- Lamentations 5:9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
- Deuteronomy 28:48 you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:53 Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.
- 2 Kings 6:25 So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
- Isaiah 8:21 They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
- Isaiah 56:11 Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:
- Lamentations 4:4 The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.