- Bible
- Psalms
- Chapter 59
- Verse 6
Psalms 59:6
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
My Notes
Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
They return at evening,.... It was at evening Saul sent messengers to watch David's house, that they might take him in the morning; but missing him, perhaps after a fruitless search for him all the…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
They return at evening - Many have rendered this in the imperative, as in Psa 59:14, “Let them return at evening,” etc. So Luther renders it, and so also DeWette. But the more natural and obvious…
The title of this psalm acquaints us particularly with the occasion on which it was penned; it was when Saul sent a party of his guards to beset David's house in the night, that they might seize him…
Be his enemies never so threatening and insolent, he can trust in God.