Even thou, O Lord God of hosts, O God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen, and be not [a]merciful unto all that transgress maliciously. Selah.

They go to and fro in the evening: they bark like [b]dogs, and go about the city.

Behold, they [c]brag in their talk, and swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 59:5 Seeing it appertaineth to God’s judgments to punish the wicked, he desiresth God to execute his vengeance on the reprobate, who maliciously persecute his Church.
  2. Psalm 59:6 He compareth their cruelty to hungry dogs, showing that they are never weary in doing evil.
  3. Psalm 59:7 They boast openly in their wicked devices, and every word is as a sword: for they neither fear God nor are ashamed of men.

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