Psalm 59

A Michtam of David when Saul sent men, and they watched the house in order to kill him.

At evening they return,
They growl like a dog,
And go all around the city.
7 Indeed, they belch with their mouth;
Swords are in their lips;
For they say, “Who hears?”

8 But You, O Lord, shall laugh at them; vv.6-8

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Reading the prescripts to psalms helps make more sense of emotions and words this was stemming from as well as we can relate to situations when we know more character going on.  This Psalm takes place when Saul sent men to David's home to kill him, but Michal (David's wife, Saul's daughter) helped him escape and made a dummy in the bed to appear as David.   These men waiting outside at evening when it's dark like wild beast that roam at night where they can do their most mischief.  They growl and belch; this makes me think they are drunk but as the comparison to dogs when they are hungry and want their bone or whatever they are craving they will rage and ravish.  So these men along with the rage of Saul desire to take the life of David and probably became more fierce as they find they were tricked when they see the dummy in place of where David should have been.  

I love how David next talks to the Lord as if He's right next to him as his best friend saying 'You shall laugh at them.'  It's as if David's saying what are these men to me because I'm with the Lord and nothing phases or gets past Him.  "The greatest, cleverest, and most malicious of the enemies of the church are only objects of ridicule to the Lord" (Spurgeon).  So another painful event in David's life turns in to a song that praises God.  How can you turn your calamities into songs of praise?