Psalm 109:10 {108:10}
Good News Translation
May his children be homeless beggars; may they be driven from the ruins they live in!

New Revised Standard Version
May his children wander about and beg; may they be driven out of the ruins they inhabit.

Contemporary English Version
make his children beg for food and live in the slums.

New American Bible
May his children wander and beg, driven from their hovels.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Psalm 37:25 I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

Genesis 4:12-14 When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth. . . .

2 Samuel 3:29 And may it come upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's house: and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue of seed, or that is a leper, or that holdeth the distaff, or that falleth by the sword, or that wanteth bread.

2 Kings 5:27 But the leprosy of Naaman, shall also stick to thee, and to thy seed for ever. And he went out from him a leper, as white as snow.

Job 24:8-12 Who are wet, with the showers of the mountains, and having no covering embrace the stones. . . .

Job 30:3-9 Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery. . . .

Isaiah 16:2 And it shall come to pass, that as a bird fleeing away, and as young ones flying out of the nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be in the passage of Arnon.

Context
The Song of the Slandered
9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.11May the usurer search all his substance: and let strangers plunder his labours.…
Cross References
Genesis 4:12
When thou shalt till it, it shall not yield to thee its fruit: a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.

Job 30:5
Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

Psalm 37:25
I have been young and now am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.

Psalm 59:15
They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.

Psalm 109:9
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