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Psalms 109:10
Psalms 109:10 is verse 10 of Psalms chapter 109, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
Hebrew; LXX may they be driven
King James Version
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
World English Bible
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.
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Psalms 109:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 May his days be few; may another take his position.
9 May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
10 May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
11 May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
12 May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 37:25I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
Genesis 4:12When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Genesis 4:13But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Genesis 4:14Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
2 Samuel 3:29May it whirl over the heads of Joab and the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
2 Kings 5:27Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.
Job 24:8Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.
Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Job 24:10Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.
Job 24:11They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
Job 24:12From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.
Job 30:3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
Job 30:4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
Job 30:5They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
Job 30:6so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
Job 30:7They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
Job 30:8A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
Job 30:9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
Isaiah 16:2Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon: