Psalms 59:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

Psalms 59:15 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 15:23
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Psalms 109:10
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Job 30:1-7
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. …
Lamentations 5:9
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Isaiah 8:21
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.

Topics

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

14-15. Meanwhile let the rapacious dogs prowl, they cannot hurt the pious; yea, they shall wander famished and sleepless.