Psalms 59:15

"At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city."

Key Reflection

This verse depicts David’s enemies as relentless but ultimately ineffective, symbolizing their futile attempts to harm him. By comparing them to hungry dogs, it emphasizes that these adversaries will return each evening, howling and prowling around the city without finding what they seek, thus highlighting God's ultimate protection and victory over David's foes.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Let them wander up and down for meat -Let them be like dogs that wander about for food, and find none. The idea is, that they would not find him, and would be then as dogs that had sought in vain for food. And grudge if they be not satisfied -Margin, If they be not satisfied, then they will stay all night. The marginal reading is most in accordance with the Hebrew. The sentence is obscure, but the idea seems to be that they would not be satisfied - that is, they would not obtain that which they had sought; and, like hungry and disappointed dogs, they would be compelled to pass the night in this miserable and wretched condition.

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