Psalms 59:6
They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
BSB
ASV
They return at evening, they howl like a dog, And go round about the city.
KJV
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
They return at evening,.... It was at evening Saul sent messengers to watch David's house, that they might take him in the morning; but missing him, perhaps after a fruitless search for him all the day, returned at evening to watch his house again; or they might come, and go and return the first evening.
Return - Watching for me: which they did at this time all the night long, 1 Sam. xix, 11. A dog - When he is pursuing his prey. Go round - When they did not find him in his own house, they sought for him in other parts of the city.
Thus the persecutors of our Lord Jesus, who are compared to dogs ( Ps. xxii. 16 ), ran him down with noise; for else they could not have taken him, at least no on the feast-day, for there would have been an uproar among the people.
They return at evening. Like wild beasts that roam at night, they come forth to do mischief. If foiled in the light, they seek the more congenial darkness in which to accomplish their designs. They mean to break into the house in the dead of might. They make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. Howling with hunger for their prey, they sneak round and round the walls, prowling with stealthy footstep, and barking in unamiable concert.
The walk8
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Psalms 22:16For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
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And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”
Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They…
When they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments by casting lots.
So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he replied, “Unless I see the nail marks in His hands, and put my finger where the nails have been, and put…
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided His garments into four parts, one for each soldier, with the tunic remaining. It was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
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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…
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Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; protect me from those who rise against me.
When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait…
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Psalms 59:14They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
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For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.