Psalm 27:2 {26:2}
Good News Translation
When evil people attack me and try to kill me, they stumble and fall.

New Revised Standard Version
When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh— my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall.

Contemporary English Version
Brutal people may attack and try to kill me, but they will stumble. Fierce enemies may attack, but they will fall.

New American Bible
When evildoers come at me to devour my flesh, These my enemies and foes themselves stumble and fall.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

wicked

Psalm 3:7 For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

Psalm 18:4 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

Psalm 22:16 For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.

Psalm 62:3,4 How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence. . . .

came upon [heb.

Psalm 14:4 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Psalm 53:4 Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?

Job 19:22 Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

Job 31:31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

they

Psalm 18:38-42 I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet. . . .

Psalm 118:12 They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.

Isaiah 8:15 And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.

John 18:3-6 Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. . . .

Context
The LORD is My Salvation
1The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid? 2Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.3If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident.…
Cross References
Psalm 9:3
When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.

Psalm 14:4
Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Psalm 124:6
Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth.

Daniel 3:17
For behold our God, whom we worship, is able to save us from the furnace of burning fire, and to deliver us out of thy hands, O king.

Daniel 11:19
And he shall turn his face to the empire of his own land, and he shall stumble, and fall, and shall not be found.

Micah 3:3
You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?

Psalm 27:1
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