Parallel Verses
Amplified
They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs,
And go [prowling] around the city.
New American Standard Bible
And go around the city.
King James Version
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Holman Bible
and prowling around the city.
International Standard Version
At night they return like howling dogs; they prowl around the city.
A Conservative Version
They return at evening. They howl like a dog, and go round about the city.
American Standard Version
They return at evening, they howl like a dog, And go round about the city.
Bible in Basic English
They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.
Darby Translation
They return in the evening; they howl like a dog, and go round about the city:
Julia Smith Translation
They will turn back at evening: they will make a noise as a dog, and they will surround the city.
King James 2000
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They return at evening; they howl like dogs while they prowl [the] city.
Modern King James verseion
They return at evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go around the city.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let them go to and fro, and run about the city, howling like dogs.
NET Bible
They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.
New Heart English Bible
They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
The Emphasized Bible
They return at evening, They grow like a dog, And go round the city.
Webster
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go about the city.
World English Bible
They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.
Youngs Literal Translation
They turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And go round about the city.
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 59:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Our Stronghold
5
You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Arise to punish all the nations;
Spare no one and do not be merciful to any who treacherously plot evil. Selah.
They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs,
And go [prowling] around the city.
Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;
Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,
For they say, “Who hears us?”
Cross References
Psalm 59:14
They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs,
And go [prowling] around the city.
1 Samuel 19:11
Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch for him, so that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”
Psalm 22:16
For [a pack of] dogs have surrounded me;
A gang of evildoers has encircled me,
They pierced my hands and my feet.