“They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.”
The reference to enemies seeking food and growing angry if not satisfied articulates that the enemies' opposition is voracious and never satisfied; like animals, they will consume whatever they can reach. The image of them going around the city suggests that they are ubiquitous and pervasive; the entire environment has been transformed into a hunting ground. The mention of lodging in the city indicates that the enemies have established themselves permanently, suggesting that the persecution is not temporary. This verse emphasizes that the enemies are entrenched and determined.
Church Fathers on Psalms 59:6
The First Part. 1. As the Scripture is wont to set mysteries of the Psalms on the titles, and to deck the brow of a Psalm with the high announcement of a Mystery, in order that we that are about to go in may know (when as it were upon the door-post we have read what within is doing) either of whom the house is, or who is the owner of that estate: so also in this Psalm there has been written a title, of a title. For it has, “At the end, corrupt not for David himself unto the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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