Each evening they come back howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priests and the Levites.
For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they bound my hands and feet.
Saul sent messengers to David’s house to keep watch over him, planning to kill him in the morning. David’s wife Michal told him, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”