Verse 10
10. Continually vagabonds Hebrew, wandering, his sons shall wander: without a fixed habitation, homeless: the condition to which David had been already reduced by the treachery and falsehood of his enemy. The same word expresses David’s exilement (Psalms 56:8) and Cain’s punishment, (Genesis 4:12; Genesis 4:14,) where, “for fugitive and vagabond,”
the Septuagint have στενων και τρεμων , groaning and trembling. The parallel passage is Psalms 59:11; Psalms 59:15, where also the same word occurs. The consequences of crime and impiety often reappear in the offspring of the wicked, according to the declarations of Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:7, and of this the psalmist now forewarns them. “Every consequence of sin is a punishment, and every punishment is from the living God. And is not man permitted to desire that God should do what he really does, provided he desires it in that sense in which God does it? ” Tholuck.
Out of their desolate places “Out of” should here read from, that is, far from. The fall of the wicked father brings ruin and desolation upon the household, and from, far from, the ruins of a home from which they are shaken out, they wander up and down, and ask and search for bread. See Psalms 37:25. A description of human poverty and wretchedness which has not a parallel.
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