They return at evening, howling like dogs, prowling around the city.
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
For dogs have encompassed me; the assembly of the wicked has encircled me; they pierced my hands and my feet;
Saul also sent messengers to the house of David, to watch him and to slay him in the morning. But Michal, wife of David, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead.”