Psalms 109:10

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 LXX. and Vulg., “let them be driven out of their homes.” This reading involves but a slight literal change. Comp.,

“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.