Hazael said, “What is your servant, who is a mere dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Aram.”
He did obeisance and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon a dead dog such as I?”
Then the Lord said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus; when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king over Aram.
Now King Hazael of Aram oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
Elisha said to him, “Go, say to him, ‘You shall certainly recover,’ but the Lord has shown me that he shall certainly die.”
For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they bound my hands and feet.
Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!
The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?
Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.
“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, or they will trample them under foot and turn and maul you.
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.