Psalm 27:2
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New International Version (©1984)
When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When evil people come to devour me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.

English Standard Version (©2001)
When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh, My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Evildoers closed in on me to tear me to pieces. My opponents and enemies stumbled and fell.

King James Bible
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

American King James Version
When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

American Standard Version
When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Bible in Basic English
When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

Darby Bible Translation
When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

English Revised Version
When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Webster's Bible Translation
When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

World English Bible
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Young's Literal Translation
When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

Geneva Study Bible

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Wesley's Notes

27:2 Light - My counsellor in all my difficulties, and my comforter and deliverer in all my distresses. Strength - The supporter and preserver of my life.

King James Translators' Notes

came...: Heb. approached against me

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. eat . my flesh-(Job 19:22; Ps 14:4). The allusion to wild beasts illustrates their rapacity.

they stumbled-"they" is emphatic; not I, but they were destroyed.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

27:1-6 The Lord, who is the believer's light, is the strength of his life; not only by whom, but in whom he lives and moves. In God let us strengthen ourselves. The gracious presence of God, his power, his promise, his readiness to hear prayer, the witness of his Spirit in the hearts of his people; these are the secret of his tabernacle, and in these the saints find cause for that holy security and peace of mind in which they dwell at ease. The psalmist prays for constant communion with God in holy ordinances. All God's children desire to dwell in their Father's house. Not to sojourn there as a wayfaring man, to tarry but for a night; or to dwell there for a time only, as the servant that abides not in the house for ever; but to dwell there all the days of their life, as children with a father. Do we hope that the praising of God will be the blessedness of our eternity? Surely then we ought to make it the business of our time. This he had at heart more than any thing. Whatever the Christian is as to this life, he considers the favour and service of God as the one thing needful. This he desires, prays for and seeks after, and in it he rejoices.


Psalm 9:3 When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before You.
Psalm 14:4 Do all the workers of wickedness not know, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the Lord? (NASB ©1995)

Advance Adversaries Assail Attack Broken Devour Doers Eat End Enemies Evil Evildoers Evil-Doers Fall Fallen Fell Flesh Foes Haters Slanders Stumble Stumbled Uttering Wicked


When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

wicked Ps 3:7 18:4 22:16 62:3,4

came upon [heb.] approached against
to Ps 14:4 53:4 Job 19:22 31:31

they Ps 18:38-42 118:12 Isa 8:15 Joh 18:3-6

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