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15Let them wander up and down{H8686)}{H8675)}{H8799)} for meat{H8800)}, and grudge{H8799)} if they be not satisfied{H8799)}.

Psalms 59:15

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

  • But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. …

  • We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-17)

David here encourages himself, in reference to the threatening power of his enemies, with a pious resolution to wait upon God and a believing expectation that he should yet praise him. I. He resolves to wait upon God (Ps. 59:9): “ Because of his strength ” (either the strength of his enemies, the fear of which drove him to God, or because of God’s strength, the hope of which drew him to God) “ Wil…

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