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Deliver Me from My Enemies

Psalms 59:14

In 11 translations

BSB
They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
KJV
And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
WEB
At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
ASV
And at evening let them return, let them howl like a dog, And go round about the city.
LSV
And they return at evening, || They make a noise like a dog, || And they go around the city.
YLT
And they turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And they go round about the city.
DBY
And in the evening they shall return, they shall howl like a dog, and go round about the city.
DRC58:15
They shall return at evening and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.
GNV
And in the euening they shall go to and from, and barke like dogs, and go about the citie.
JPS59:15
And they return at evening, they howl like a dog, and go round about the city;
LXXE58:15
They shall return at evening, and be hungry as a dog, and go round about the city.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC59:15
וְיָשׁ֣וּבוּ לָ֭עֶרֶב יֶהֱמ֥וּ כַכָּ֗לֶב וִיס֥וֹבְבוּ עִֽיר׃KJV:Ps.59.14
LXX-Br58:15
Ἐπιστρέψουσιν εἰς ἑσπέραν, καὶ λιμώξουσιν ὡς κύων, καὶ κυκλώσουσι πόλιν·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 22:16For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
  • Psalms 59:6They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 59:15 in some Bibles
  • 59:14 in most Bibles

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