Psalms 27:12
Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11Teach me thy way, Jehovah, and lead me in an even path, because of mine enemies.
13Unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living !
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:16If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of an offence;
1 Samuel 26:19And now, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Jehovah have moved thee against me, let him accept an oblation; but if the sons of men, cursed be they before Jehovah; for they have driven me out this day from adhering to the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.
Psalms 25:19Consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me [with] cruel hatred.
Psalms 35:11Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not.
Psalms 38:16For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified [themselves] against me.
Psalms 41:11By this I know that thou delightest in me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 27:8-14
Confidence in Divine Goodness. 7 Hear, O Lord , when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord , will I seek. 9 Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. 11 Teach me thy way, O Lord , and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. 12… Read the whole commentary →