Psalms 55:10
During each day and night they march around on top of its walls, committing crimes and causing trouble.
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1 Samuel 19:11Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house. He told them to watch the house and to kill David while he was leaving the house the following morning. But David’s wife Michal saw them and warned him, “To survive, you must run away tonight, because if you do not do that, you will be killed tomorrow!”
2 Samuel 16:21Ahithophel replied, “Your father left some of his slave wives in the palace to take care of it. Have sex [EUP] with them. When everyone in Israel hears that you have done that, they will realize that you are acting very contemptuously toward your father. Then all those who are with you will be very encouraged.”
Psalms 58:3Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
Psalms 59:14My enemies return each evening, snarling like vicious dogs as they prowl around this city.
Ezekiel 9:4and said to him, “Go throughout Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who are very sad [DOU] because of the detestable things that are being done inside the city.”
Micah 2:1Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night, planning to do wicked things. You get up at dawn, and you do those things, as soon as you are able to do them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 55:10-16
Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. 11 Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. 12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 13 But it was thou, a man… Read the whole commentary →