Psalms 27:12
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
11Teach me your way, LORD. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.
13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:16If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
1 Samuel 26:19Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that the LORD has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before the LORD; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to the LORD’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’
Psalms 25:19Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 35:11Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.
Psalms 38:16For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
Psalms 41:11By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t 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 →