Psalms 27:2
When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [even] my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
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Job 19:22Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Psalms 3:7Arise, O LORD. Save me, O my God. For thou have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone. Thou have broken the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon LORD?
Psalms 18:38I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
Psalms 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon God?
Psalms 118:12They encompassed me around like bees. They are quenched as the fire of thorns. In the name of LORD I will cut them off.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 27:2-7
Devout Confidence; Encouragement in Prayers. 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. 3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. 4 One thing have I desired of the Lord , that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all… Read the whole commentary →