Psalms 27:2
When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, 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, Jehovah; save me, my God! For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheekbone, thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 14:4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.
Psalms 18:38I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell under my feet.
Psalms 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? they call not upon God.
Psalms 118:12They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them.
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 →