Psalms 27:2

When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

In Context

1Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

3Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

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Cross References

Job 19:22Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

Psalms 3:7\3:6\I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.

Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

Psalms 18:38\18:37\I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

Psalms 53:4\53:3\Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.

Psalms 118:12They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

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 →

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