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Psalm 109:10

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109:10May his children15 roam around begging,

asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!16

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Footnotes

  1. 15 Or “sons.”
  2. 16 Heb “and roaming, may his children roam and beg, and seek from their ruins.” Some, following the , emend the term וְדָרְשׁוּ (védoreshu, “and seek”) to יְגֹרְשׁוּ (yégoreshu; a Pual jussive, “may they be driven away” [see Job 30:5; cf. , ]), but דָּרַשׁ (darash) nicely parallels שִׁאֵלוּ (shi’elu, “and beg”) in the preceding line.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

May his children wander about and beg,

seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

May his children be wandering beggars;

may they be driven from their ruined homes.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Let his children wander as beggars,

searching for food far from their demolished homes.

NLTNew Living Translation

May his children wander as beggars

and be driven from their ruined homes.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

and let his children wander aimlessly and beg,

and let them plead from their ruins.

KJV 1900King James Version

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg:

Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.