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 return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
1 Samuel 19:11
Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."
2 Samuel 17:1
Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me now choose twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David tonight.
Hosea 7:6
For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
Micah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
John 18:3
Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
Acts 9:24
but their plot became known to Saul. They watched the gates both day and night that they might kill him,
Mischief
2 Samuel 16:21
Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."
Isaiah 59:6
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Ezekiel 9:4
Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in its midst.
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!
General references
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.