Psalm 109:10
Modern Translations
New International Version
May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.

New Living Translation
May his children wander as beggars and be driven from their ruined homes.

English Standard Version
May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!

Berean Study Bible
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.

New American Standard Bible
May his children wander about and beg; And may they seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.

NASB 1995
Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.

NASB 1977
Let his children wander about and beg; And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Amplified Bible
Let his children wander and beg; Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.

Christian Standard Bible
Let his children wander as beggars, searching for food far from their demolished homes.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let his children wander as beggars, searching for food far from their demolished homes.

Contemporary English Version
make his children beg for food and live in the slums.

Good News Translation
May his children be homeless beggars; may they be driven from the ruins they live in!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Let his children wander around and beg. Let them seek help far from their ruined homes.

International Standard Version
May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes.

NET Bible
May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

New King James Version
Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; Let them seek their bread also from their desolate places.

King James 2000 Bible
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

New Heart English Bible
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

World English Bible
Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

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

American Standard Version
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

A Faithful Version
Let his children always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their desolate places.

Darby Bible Translation
Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places;

English Revised Version
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; and let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

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

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Let his children be vagabounds & beg and seeke bread, comming out of their places destroyed.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Let his children be vagaboundes and go a begging: and let them seeke foode out of their barren groundes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Let his children be vagabundes, and begg their bred: let them seke it, as they that be destroyed.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And his sons wander continually, "" Indeed, they have begged, "" And have sought out of their dry places.

Young's Literal Translation
And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

Smith's Literal Translation
And shaking his sons shall wander about, and they asked and sought from their desolations.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Let his children be carried about vagabonds, and beg; and let them be cast out of their dwellings.

Catholic Public Domain Version
May his sons be carried by those who walk unsteadily, and may they go begging. And may they be cast out of their dwelling places.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
— Peshitta mss. omit v. 10:"Let his sons always beg and be vagabonds, and seek food out of their ruins.”

Lamsa Bible
Let their children be continually vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let his children wander without a dwelling-place, and beg: let them be cast out of their habitations.
















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