Psalm 59:15 “They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.”

Psalm 59:15

They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.

American Standard Version

They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.

Geneva Bible 1599

They shall runne here and there for meate: and surely they shall not be satisfied, though they tary all night.

Darby Translation

They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.

Young's Literal Translation

They — they wander for food, If they are not satisfied — then they murmur.

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.

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Cross references

“wander”

Job 15:23 Psalm 109:10 Job 30:1–7 Isaiah 8:21

Job 15:23 · BSB

He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.

Psalm 109:10 · BSB

May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Job 30:1–7 · BSB

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

Isaiah 8:21 · BSB

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.

“for meat”

Lamentations 5:9 Deuteronomy 28:48 Deuteronomy 28:53–58 2 Kings 6:25–29 Lamentations 4:4 Lamentations 4:5

Lamentations 5:9 · BSB

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 28:48 · BSB

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 28:53–58 · BSB

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 6:25–29 · BSB

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.

Lamentations 4:4 · BSB

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.

Lamentations 4:5 · BSB

Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

“if”

Isaiah 56:11 Micah 3:5

Isaiah 56:11 · BSB

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:

Micah 3:5 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.

16But I will sing of Your strength and proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning. For You are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.

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