Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
Psalm 59:6 - Revised Standard Version CI Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They return at evening: They make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs, and go [prowling] about the city. American Standard Version (1901) They return at evening, they howl like a dog, And go round about the city. Common English Bible They come back every evening, growling like dogs, prowling around the city. Catholic Public Domain Version You have given a warning sign to those who fear you, so that they may flee from before the face of the bow, so that your beloved may be delivered. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou hast given a warning to them that fear thee: that they may flee from before the bow: That thy beloved may be delivered. |
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
Yea, dogs are round about me; a company of evildoers encircle me; they have pierced my hands and feet—
Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
That night Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”