Psalms 27:2
When the wicked drew near to assail me and eat up my flesh, it was those who distressed and opposed me who stumbled and fell.
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Psalms 3:7Arise, Lord: save me, my God, who strikes all my foes on the cheek, and shatters the teeth of the wicked.
Psalms 14:4Have they learned their lesson, those workers of evil? Who ate up my people, eating, devouring, never calling to the Lord.
Psalms 18:38I smashed them, they could not rise, they fell beneath my feet.
Psalms 53:4Have they learned their lesson, those workers of evil? Who ate up my people, eating, devouring, never calling to the Lord.
Psalms 118:12they swarmed around me like bees, they blazed like a fire of thorns: in the name of the Lord I cut them 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 →