They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
The superscript says David wrote this after Saul tried to kill him in his bed. It is an intriguing context because,
He calls his enemies “heathen.”
Did David believe Saul and the men who followed him were heathen unbelievers?
When a man of God is attacked by people who claim to be Christians, can he rightly think of them as heathen? There is certainly something very wrong with the soul of one who attempts injury to a servant of the Lord. Even if they do it thinking they are doing God service, they might be demonstrating the heart of unbelief.
The Psalm begins by describing them as dogs prowling the city.
But he does not mean them any physical harm because they can be found yet again in verse fourteen prowling the city.
Psalms 59:14 (KJV)
And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
The Christian asks two things of God concerning his enemies
- That he be protected to continue his ministry in a Christ-honoring way
- That his enemies, if they remain his enemies, are not harmed.[4]
The truth is that all heathen end in hell and the lake of fire. How could we wish them any evil more than that?
[1] Psalms 59:2 (KJV)
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.
[2] Psalms 59:5 (KJV)
Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
[3] Psalms 59:13 (KJV)
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
[4] Psalms 59:11 (KJV)
Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
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