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They return each evening,
    snarling like dogs
    as they prowl through the city.
[a]See what spews from their mouths—
    they spew forth from their lips,
    and they assert, “Who is there to hear us?”
However, you laugh at them, O Lord;
    you show your disdain for all the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 59:8 The wicked curse God as if he cannot see and hear and will not respond. But God laughs at them (see Pss 2:4; 37:13) and listens until the day of reckoning when the curses will fall back in judgment on the wicked themselves.