Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
General references
Bible References
Day
Psalm 59:6
They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.
1 Samuel 19:11
Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.
2 Samuel 17:1
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:
Hosea 7:6
For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.
Micah 2:1
A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.
John 18:3
So Judas, getting a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and Pharisees, went there with lights and with arms.
Acts 9:24
But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death:
Mischief
2 Samuel 16:21
And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.
Isaiah 59:6
Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.
Zephaniah 3:1
Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!
General references
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.