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10Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
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I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth. …
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. …
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. …
Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-20)David here fastens upon some one particular person that was worse than the rest of his enemies, and the ringleader of them, and in a devout and pious manner, not from a principle of malice and revenge, but in a holy zeal for God and against sin and with an eye to the enemies of Christ, particularly Judas who betrayed him, whose sin was greater than Pilate’s that condemned him (John 19:11), he impr…
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