Psalms 59:14

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They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

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  • Ps 22:16 : 16 Yes, wild dogs surround me– a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.
  • Ps 59:6 : 6 They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

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  • Ps 59:5-7
    3 verses
    93%

    5You, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself and punish all the nations! Have no mercy on any treacherous evildoers!(Selah)

    6They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.

    7Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say,“Who hears?”

  • Ps 59:15
    83%

    15They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

  • Ps 59:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!

    13Angrily wipe them out! Wipe them out so they vanish! Let them know that God rules in Jacob and to the ends of the earth!(Selah)

  • Isa 17:14
    74%

    14In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

  • Ps 55:9-11
    3 verses
    73%

    9Confuse them, O Lord! Frustrate their plans! For I see violence and conflict in the city.

    10Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

    11Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.

  • Isa 56:9-11
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    9The Lord Denounces Israel’s Paganism All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

    10All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze.

    11The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.

  • Joel 2:9
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    9They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief.

  • Ps 69:23-25
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    70%

    23May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!

    24Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!

    25May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    29Their roar is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.

    30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

  • Jer 51:38
    69%

    38The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat.

  • Zeph 3:3
    68%

    3Her princes are as fierce as roaring lions; her rulers are as hungry as wolves in the desert, who completely devour their prey by morning.

  • Jer 6:4-5
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    4They will say,‘Prepare to do battle against it! Come on! Let’s attack it at noon!’ But later they will say,‘Woe to us! For the day is almost over and the shadows of evening are getting long.

    5So come on, let’s go ahead and attack it by night and destroy all its fortified buildings.’

  • Jer 5:6
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    6So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the rift valley they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things.

  • Ps 79:7
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    7For they have devoured Jacob and destroyed his home.

  • Job 3:7-8
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    7Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!

    8Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

  • Jer 2:15
    68%

    15Like lions his enemies roar victoriously over him; they raise their voices in triumph. They have laid his land waste; his cities have been burned down and deserted.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

  • Ps 144:14
    67%

    14Our cattle will be weighted down with produce. No one will break through our walls, no one will be taken captive, and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares.

  • Ezek 19:7
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    7He broke down their strongholds and devastated their cities. The land and everything in it was frightened at the sound of his roaring.

  • Hos 11:10
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    10God Will Restore the Exiles to Israel He will roar like a lion, and they will follow the LORD; when he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.

  • Ps 104:20-22
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    67%

    20You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

    21The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God.

    22When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep in their dens.

  • Jer 18:22
    67%

    22Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

  • Ps 17:11
    67%

    11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

  • Job 5:14
    67%

    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

  • Ps 7:7
    67%

    7The countries are assembled all around you; take once more your rightful place over them!

  • Ps 73:10
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    10Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea.

  • Jer 10:25
    67%

    25Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.

  • Isa 13:14
    67%

    14Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.

  • Jer 10:22
    66%

    22Listen! News is coming even now. The rumble of a great army is heard approaching from a land in the north. It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live.

  • Ps 109:10
    66%

    10May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!

  • Isa 28:19
    66%

    19Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you; indeed, every morning it will sweep by, it will come through during the day and the night.” When this announcement is understood, it will cause nothing but terror.

  • Job 24:5
    66%

    5Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out to their labor seeking diligently for food; the arid rift valley provides food for them and for their children.

  • Job 38:40
    66%

    40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

  • Ps 40:14
    66%

    14May those who are trying to snatch away my life be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

  • Isa 66:6
    66%

    6The sound of battle comes from the city; the sound comes from the temple! It is the sound of the LORD paying back his enemies.

  • Ps 129:6
    66%

    6May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,