Psalm 59:15 {58:16}
Good News Translation
like dogs roaming about for food and growling if they do not find enough.

New Revised Standard Version
They roam about for food, and growl if they do not get their fill.

Contemporary English Version
They search for scraps of food, and they snarl until they are stuffed.

New American Bible
They roam about as scavengers; if they are not filled, they howl.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.

wander

Psalm 109:10 Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

Job 15:23 When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Job 30:1-7 But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock: . . .

Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.

for meat [heb.

Deuteronomy 28:48,53-58 Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee. . . .

2 Kings 6:25-29 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and so long did the siege continue, till the head of an ass was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cabe of pigeons' dung, for five pieces of silver. . . .

Lamentations 4:4,5,9,10 Daleth. The tongue of the sucking child hath stuck to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the little ones have asked for bread, and there was none to break it unto them. . . .

Lamentations 5:9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.

Matthew 24:7,8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: And there shall be pestilences and famines and earthquakes in places. . . .

grudge.

Isaiah 56:11 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.

Micah 3:5 Then shall they cry to the Lord, and he will not hear them: and he will hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved wickedly in their devices.

Context
Deliver Me From My Enemies
14They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city. 15They shall be scattered abroad to eat, and shall murmur if they be not filled.16But I will sing thy strength: and will extol thy mercy in the morning. For thou art become my support, and my refuge, in the day of my trouble.…
Cross References
Job 15:23
When he moveth himself to seek bread, he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

Psalm 109:10
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

Psalm 59:14
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