Psalm 109:10 May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.

◄ Psalm 109:10 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.

English Standard Version
May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!

New American Standard Bible
Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let his children wander as beggars, searching for food far from their demolished homes.

International Standard Version
May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes.

American Standard Version
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

Darby Bible Translation
Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;

Young's Literal Translation
And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

109:6-20 The Lord Jesus may speak here as a Judge, denouncing sentence on some of his enemies, to warn others. When men reject the salvation of Christ, even their prayers are numbered among their sins. See what hurries some to shameful deaths, and brings the families and estates of others to ruin; makes them and theirs despicable and hateful, and brings poverty, shame, and misery upon their posterity: it is sin, that mischievous, destructive thing. And what will be the effect of the sentence, Go, ye cursed, upon the bodies and souls of the wicked! How it will affect the senses of the body, and the powers of the soul, with pain, anguish, horror, and despair! Think on these things, sinners, tremble and repent.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9, 10. Let his family share the punishment, his children be as wandering beggars to prowl in their desolate homes, a greedy and relentless creditor grasp his substance, his labor, or the fruit of it, enure to strangers and not his heirs, and his unprotected, fatherless children fall in want, so that his posterity shall utterly fail.