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Deliver Me from My Enemies

Psalms 59:6

In 11 translations

BSB
They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
KJV
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
WEB
They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
ASV
They return at evening, they howl like a dog, And go round about the city.
LSV
They return at evening, || They make a noise like a dog, || And go around the city.
YLT
They turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And go round about the city.
DBY
They return in the evening; they howl like a dog, and go round about the city:
DRC58:7
They shall return at evening, and shall suffer hunger like dogs: and shall go round about the city.
GNV
They goe to and from in the euening: they barke like dogs, and goe about the citie.
JPS59:7
They return at evening, they howl like a dog, and go round about the city.
LXXE58:7
They shall return at evening, and hunger like 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

WLC59:7
יָשׁ֣וּבוּ לָ֭עֶרֶב יֶהֱמ֥וּ כַכָּ֗לֶב וִיס֥וֹבְבוּ עִֽיר׃KJV:Ps.59.6
LXX-Br58:7
Ἐπιστρέψουσιν εἰς ἑσπέραν, καὶ λιμώξουσιν ὡς κύων, καὶ κυκλώσουσιν πόλιν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 59:14They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
  • Psalms 22:16For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
  • 1 Samuel 19:11Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

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

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 59:7 in some Bibles
  • 59:6 in most Bibles

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