Psalms 109:10

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
children	בָנָ֣יו va.Nav	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
continually	וְנ֤וֹעַ ve.No.a'	H5128	to waver · conjunction + verb, qal infinitive construct
vagabonds	יָנ֣וּעוּ ya.Nu.'u	H5128	to waver · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
beg	וְשִׁאֵ֑לוּ ve.shi.'E.lu	H7592	to inquire · conjunction + verb, piel sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
seek	וְ֝דָרְשׁ֗וּ ve.da.re.Shu	H1875	properly · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 3rd person common plural
places	מֵחָרְבוֹתֵיהֶֽם me.cha.re.vo.tei.Hem	H2723	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural

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Cross-references

Genesis 4:12-14 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Psalms 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
2 Kings 5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as sn…
Psalms 59:15 Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.
Isaiah 16:2 For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
2 Samuel 3:29 Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or tha…
Job 24:8-12 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
Job 30:3-9 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 109:6-20

David here fastens upon some one particular person that was worse than the rest of his enemies, and the ringleader of them, and in a devout and pious manner, not from a principle of malice and revenge, but in a holy zeal for God and against sin and with an eye to the enemies of Christ, particularly Judas who betrayed him, whose sin was greater than Pilate's that condemned him (Joh 19:11), he imprecates and predicts his destruction, foresees and pronounces him completely miserable, and such a one as our Saviour calls him, A son of perdition. Calvin speaks of it as a detestable piece of sacrilege, common in his time among Franciscan friars and other monks, that if any one had malice against a…

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John Gill on Psalms 109:10

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg,.... Wander from place to place, begging their bread: this is denied of the children of good men in David's time, Psalm 37:25 yet was threatened to the children of Eli, 1 Samuel 2:36 and was very likely literally true of the children of Judas; and was certainly the case of multitudes of the children of the Jews, the posterity of them that crucified Christ, at the time of their destruction by the Romans; when great numbers were dispersed, and wandered about in various countries, as vagabonds, begging their bread from door to door; which is reckoned (a) by them a great affliction, and very distressing. Let them seek their bread also out of th…

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John Calvin on Psalms 109:6-11

Psalm 109:6-11 6. Set [298] thou over him a wicked person; and let the adversary stand at his right hand. 7. When he is judged, let him depart guilty, and let his prayer be turned into sin. [299] 8. Let his days be few: [300] and let another receive his office. 9. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow: 10. And [301] let his children wander without any settled habitation, and let them be beggars, and let them seek food out of their waste places. [302] 11. Let the extortioner [303] seize [304] all that belongs to him, and let strangers spoil his labor. 6 Set thou over him a wicked person. [305] Hitherto he poured out his complaint against a vast number of persons; now he seems…

The Church Fathers

"Let the extortioner search out all his substance, and let the strangers spoil his labour" [Psalm 109:10].
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 109

Let his children be carried away wandering, and let them beg. Consider carefully: for indeed the things that follow are difficult. From that time in which the Lord was crucified, from then on the Jews are ever moved about, they do not stand in their own place. In short, it is said of Cain also: "And Cain, he says, went out from the face of God, and dwelt in the land of Nod." Now Nod is interpreted "commotion." Because Cain had gone out from the face of God, rightly he did not stand still, but dwelt in the land of Nod, that is, in commotion. So then these too, since they crucified their God and Lord, are carried away wandering. For they are not in their own places, but are scattered throughout the whole world. Here he speaks of a begging for spiritual riches. For they do not have prophets, they do not have the law, they do not have priesthood, they do not have sacrifice, but they have truly been made beggars.
— Jerome, Homily 35, on Psalm 108

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Dictionary and topics

Beg — That the poor existed among the Hebrews we have abundant evidence (Ex. 23:11; Deut. 15:11), but there is no mention of beggars properly so called in the Old Testament. The poor were provided for by…
Beggar, Begging — The poor among the Hebrews were much favored. They were allowed to glean in the fields, and to gather whatever the land produced in the year in which it was not tilled (Leviticus 19:10; 25:5,6;…
Vagabond — From Lat. vagabundus, “a wanderer,” “a fugitive;” not used opprobriously (Gen. 4:12, R.V., “wanderer;” Ps. 109:10; Acts 19:13, R.V., “strolling”).
Beggars · The children of the wicked — The children of the wicked
Children · Frequently bore the curse of parents — Frequently bore the curse of parents

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 109:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 109:6-20

John Gill on Psalms 109:10

John Calvin on Psalms 109:6-11

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 109:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 109:6-20

John Gill on Psalms 109:10

John Calvin on Psalms 109:6-11

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 109:6-10

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 109:8-11

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 109:10