Psalms 27:12
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
King James Version
In Context
11Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
13I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:16If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
1 Samuel 26:19Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
Psalms 25:19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
Psalms 35:11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Psalms 38:16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Psalms 41:11By this I know that thou favourest 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 →