Isaiah 29:7

The city’s guards behaved in a very cruel manner to the woman. They probably did not believe that she was outside by night for a proper reason. Thieves went out by night. Women who were not loyal to their husbands would visit other men by night. There were murderers on the streets by night. And some women offered their bodies for sex by night. They all would use the darkness to hide. And the guards did not want any of them to be about the city.