Psalms 59:15

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
down	יְנִיע֣וּן ye.ni.'Un	H5128	to waver · verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun
meat	לֶאֱכֹ֑ל le.'e.Khol	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
grudge	וַיָּלִֽינוּ vai.ya.Li.nu	H3885	to stop (usually over night) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
satisfied	יִ֝שְׂבְּע֗וּ yis.be.'U	H7646	to sate · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural

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Cross-references

Job 15:23 He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Psalms 109:10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Job 30:1-7 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Lamentations 5:9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of…
Deuteronomy 28:53-58 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the s…
2 Kings 6:25-29 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the…
Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themse…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 59:8–end

David here encourages himself, in reference to the threatening power of his enemies, with a pious resolution to wait upon God and a believing expectation that he should yet praise him. I. He resolves to wait upon God (Psa 59:9): "Because of his strength" (either the strength of his enemies, the fear of which drove him to God, or because of God's strength, the hope of which drew him to God) "Will I wait upon thee, with a believing dependence upon thee and confidence in thee." It is our wisdom and duty, in times of danger and difficulty, to wait upon God; for he is our defence, our high place, in whom we shall be safe. He hopes, 1. That God will be to him a God of mercy (Psa 59:10): "The God o…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 59:15

grudge if, &c.--literally, "they shall stay all night," that is, obtain nothing.

John Gill on Psalms 59:15

Let them wander up and down for meat,.... Like hungry dogs; and grudge if they be not satisfied; or murmur and howl as dogs when hungry, and can find nothing to eat; or "when they shall not be satisfied, and shall lodge" (z); when they shall get nothing to satisfy their hungry appetite, and shall go to bed without a supper, and lie all night without food. The Targum is, "they shall wander about to seize the prey to eat, and will not rest till the are satisfied, and will lie all night;'' that is, in quest of prey. (z) "nec satiati cubabunt", Tigurine version; "famelici pernoctabunt", Michaelis.

John Calvin on Psalms 59:13–end

Psalm 59:13-17 13. Consume, consume them in wrath, that they may not be, and let them know unto the ends of the earth that God ruleth in Jacob. Selah. 14. And at evening they will return; they will make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. 15. They will wander up and down to eat; [371] if they be not satisfied, [372] they will even lodge all night long. 16. But I will sing of thy power, I will praise thy mercy in the morning; [373] for thou hast been my fortress and refuge in the day of my trouble. 17. My strength is with thee, I will sing psalms; for God is my defence, the God of my mercy. 13 Consume, consume them in wrath, that they may not be David may seem to contradict him…

The Church Fathers

"They shall be scattered abroad in order that they may eat" [Psalm 59:15]; that is, in order that they may gain others, in order that into their Body they may change believers. "But if they shall not be filled, they shall murmur." Because above also he had spoken of the murmur of them, saying, "For who has heard?" "And You, O Lord," he says, "shall deride them, saying, Who has heard?" Wherefore? Because, as nothing You shall count all nations. Let the Psalm be concluded. See ye the Corner [Ephesians 2:20] exulting, now with both walls rejoicing. The Jews were proud, humbled they have been; Gentiles were despairing, raised up they have been: let them come to the Corner, there let them meet, there run together, there find the kiss of peace; from different parts let them come, but with differing not come, those of Circumcision, these of uncircumcision. Far apart were the walls, but before that to the Corner they came: but in the Corner let them hold themselves.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 59

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Dictionary and topics

Altaschith — Destroy not, the title of Ps. 57, 58, 59, and 75. It was probably the name of some song to the melody of which these psalms were to be chanted.
Michal — Rivulet, or who as God?, the younger of Saul’s two daughters by his wife Ahinoam (1 Sam. 14:49, 50). “Attracted by the graces of his person and the gallantry of his conduct, she fell in love with…
Dog, The · Infested cities by night — Infested cities by night

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 59:15

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 59:8–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 59:15

John Gill on Psalms 59:15

John Calvin on Psalms 59:13–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 59:15

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 59:8–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 59:15

John Gill on Psalms 59:15

John Calvin on Psalms 59:13–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 59:10–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 59:14-16

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 59:14