Psalms 59:14
They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
BSB
ASV
And at evening let them return, let them howl like a dog, And go round about the city.
KJV
And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Here verse six is repeated, as if the songster defied his foes and revelled in the thought of their futile search, their malice, their disappointment, their rage, their defeated vigilance, their wasted energy. He laughs to think that all the city would know how they were deceived, and all Israel would ring with the story of the image and the goats' hair in the bed.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Psalms 59:6They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
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