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Each evening they come back,
    howling like dogs
    and prowling about the city.
There they are, bellowing with their mouths,
    with sharp words[a] on their lips—
    for ‘Who’, they think,[b] ‘will hear us?’

But you laugh at them, O Lord;
    you hold all the nations in derision.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 59:7 Heb with swords
  2. Psalm 59:7 Heb lacks they think

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