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Psa. 59:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

to eat,

Isa. 65:13• ¹³Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed; (Isa. 65:13)

or, if they be not satisfied, then they will stay all night.

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wander.

Psa. 109:10• ¹⁰And let his sons be vagabonds (wandering wanderers),{HR}And beg and seek [bread] out of their desolations. (Psa. 109:10)

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Job 15:23• ²³He wandereth for bread: where [is it]?{HR}He knoweth that ready at his hand is a day of darkness. (Job 15:23)

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Job 30:1‑7• ¹And now at me they laugh, younger in days than I,{HR}Whose fathers I had disdained to set with the dogs of my flock!
²Even the strength of their hands, what [was] it to me?
³In them the prime was lost through want and hunger,{HR}Who yesterday were gnawing the desert, the waste, and the wild,
⁴Plucking saltwort in the jungles, roots of broom their food.
⁵At them, driven out of the midst, they hooted, as [at] a thief,
⁶To dwell in the horror of glens, dens of the earth, and rocks.
⁷Among the bushes they brayed, under the nettles huddled, (Job 30:1‑7)

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Isa. 8:21• ²¹And they shall pass through it, hardly distressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they will fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and turn their faces upward: (Isa. 8:21)

for meat.

Heb. to eat.

Deut. 28:48,53‑58• ⁴⁸thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
⁵³And in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee, thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee.
⁵⁴The eye of the man in thy midst that is tender and very luxurious shall be evil towards his brother, and the wife of his bosom, and the residue of his children which he hath left;
⁵⁵so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children that he eateth, because he hath nothing left him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
⁵⁶The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness, shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and her son, and her daughter,
⁵⁷because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet, and her children whom she shall bear; for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
⁵⁸If thou wilt not take heed to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, to fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD; (Deut. 28:48,53‑58)

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2 Kings 6:25‑29• ²⁵And there was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was worth eighty silver-pieces, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung five silver-pieces.
²⁶And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him saying, Help, my lord, O king.
²⁷And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee whence shall I help thee? Out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?
²⁸And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
²⁹So we boiled my son and did eat him; and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son that we may eat him, and she hath hid her son. (2 Kings 6:25‑29)

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Lam. 4:4‑5,9‑10• ⁴The tongue of the suckling cleaveth to its palate for thirst;{HR}Infants ask bread—none breaketh [it] for them.
⁵They that fed daintily perish in the streets;{HR}They who were brought up on scarlet embrace dunghills.
⁹Happier the slain with the sword than the slain with hunger;{HR}Because these pine away pierced through for the fruits of the field.
¹⁰The hands of pitiful women boiled their children;{HR}They became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. (Lam. 4:4‑5,9‑10)

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Lam. 5:9• ⁹With our lives we bring in our bread because of the sword of the wilderness. (Lam. 5:9)

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Matt. 24:7‑8• ⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in places.
⁸But all these [are the] beginning of travails. (Matt. 24:7‑8)

grudge, etc.

or, if they be not satisfied, then they willstay all night.

if.

Isa. 56:11• ¹¹Yea, the dogs [are] greedy, they can never have enough; and these [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. (Isa. 56:11)

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Mic. 3:5• ⁵Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace! but whoso putteth not into their mouths they prepare war against him: (Mic. 3:5)

J. N. Darby Translation

They shall wander about for meat, and stay all nighte if they be not satisfied.

JND Translation Notes

Or "murmur."

W. Kelly Translation

They shall wander for food;{HR}If they be not satisfied,{HR}Then they tarry all nighta.

WK Translation Notes

Or, murmur.