Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places." — Psalms 109:10 (ASV)
Be continually vagabonds. —“Wander and wander about” would better reproduce the original.
Desolate places. —Rather, ruins. They are imagined creeping out of the ruins of their homes to beg. But there was a different reading, followed by the Septuagint and Vulgate, let them be driven out of their homes. This reading involves only a slight literal change. Compare to,
“Worse evil yet I pray for on my spouse;
Let him still live, through strange towns roam in want,
Exiled, suspected, cowering, with no home.”
SENECA: Med., i. 19.