Psalms 27:2
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?
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though an 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 the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
- KJV
- When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
- WEB
- When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- ASV
- When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- DARBY
- When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
- BLB
- In the coming near [of] the wicked against me, for the eating of my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies to me, they stumble and fall.
- ÅB
- Når ugjerningsmenn nærmer seg for å fortære meg —
mine motstandere og fiender —
da snubler og faller de selv. - OTB
- Når onde nærmet seg meg med hensikt å skade,
Mine motstandere og mine fiender, de snublet og falt. - B1930
- Når ugjerningsmenn nærmer sig imot mig for å opsluke mig, mine motstandere og mine fiender, så snubler og faller de selv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 118:12
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Read in contextPsalms 3:7
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Read in contextIsaiah 8:15
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Read in contextPsalms 22:16
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Read in contextPsalms 9:3
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
Read in contextPsalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Read in contextJob 19:22
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Read in contextPsalms 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
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