Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
They turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And go round about 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.
Amplified
They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs,
And go [prowling] around 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.
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 59:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Our Stronghold
5 And Thou, Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel, Awake to inspect all the nations. Favour not any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah. 6 They turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And go round about the city. 7 Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for 'Who heareth?'
Cross References
Psalm 59:14
And they turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And they go round about the city.
1 Samuel 19:11
And Saul sendeth messengers unto the house of David to watch him, and to put him to death in the morning; and Michal his wife declareth to David, saying, 'If thou art not delivering thy life to-night -- tomorrow thou art put to death.'
Psalm 22:16
And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.