Psalm Chapter 59 - To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him

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Psalm 59: The Dogs at Evening They are outside the house. Saul's men. And David, trapped inside, gives them the most precise and devastating description in the Psalter: "they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city." He says it once, and then — astonishing — he says it again at the end. Twice he calls them dogs. Twice he notes the aimless circling, the empty barking, the hunger that never quite becomes a meal. It is the literary equivalent of drawing your enemy in miniature until he is no longer frightening. And then the morning come...