Psalms 59:6
They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.
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- Ps 59:14 : 14 They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.
- 1 Sam 19:11 : 11 Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him,“If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”
- 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.
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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)
14They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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9They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.
10Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea.
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11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.
12He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.
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13They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.
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6They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.
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9in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.
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14They marched around the city one time on the second day, then returned to the camp. They did this six days in all.
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22When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep in their dens.
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6I post watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they should keep praying all day and all night. You who pray to the LORD, don’t be silent!