Psalms 27:2
Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
Psalms 3:7I will not fear thousands of the people, surrounding me: arise, O Lord; save me, O my God.
Psalms 14:4Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread ?
Psalms 18:38I will pursue after my enemies, and overtake them: and I will not turn again till they are consumed.
Psalms 53:4All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that doth good, no not one.
Psalms 118:12They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on 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 →