Psalms 59:6

World English Bible (2000)

They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 59:14 : 14 At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
  • 1 Sam 19:11 : 11 Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

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    12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

    13Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

    14At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.

    15They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

  • Ps 55:9-11
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    74%

    9Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

    10Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

    11Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

  • Isa 56:9-12
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    9All you animals of the field, come to devour, [yes], all you animals in the forest.

    10His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

    11Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

    12"Come," [say they], "I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure."

  • Isa 17:14
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    14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Joel 2:9
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    9They rush on the city. They run on the wall. They climb up into the houses. They enter in at the windows like thieves.

  • Jer 5:6
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    6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; everyone who goes out there shall be torn in pieces; because their transgressions are many, [and] their backsliding is increased.

  • Zeph 3:3
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    3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

  • Isa 66:6
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    6A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders recompense to his enemies.

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    29Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

    30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Ps 59:5
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    5You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

  • Jer 51:38
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    38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' cubs.

  • Jer 6:4-5
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    4"Prepare war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! For the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

    5Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces."

  • Jer 10:22
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    22The voice of news, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling place of jackals.

  • Ps 73:9-10
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    9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

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  • Jer 6:23
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    23They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."

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    11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

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  • Ps 22:13
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    13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Ps 56:6
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    6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Prov 26:11
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    11As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.

  • Zeph 1:6
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    6those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven't sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

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    1Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause those who are in charge of the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

  • Prov 7:9
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  • Nah 3:2
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    2The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

  • Zeph 2:15
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    15This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

  • Jer 8:16
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    16The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those who dwell therein.

  • Isa 59:8
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    8The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Jer 5:8
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    8They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.

  • Hab 1:8-9
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    8Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

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    7He knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

  • Job 30:5
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    5They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

  • Job 24:5
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    5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

  • Josh 6:14
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    14The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.

  • Hos 11:10
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    10They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

  • Ps 104:22
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    22The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

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    6I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,