Dogs

Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

“Yes, Lord,” she said, “even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are only cruelty.

Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”

Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”

Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone who dies in the field will be eaten by the birds of the air.”

For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.