Psalms 27:2

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
  • Job 19:22 : 22 Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
  • John 18:3-6 : 3 So Judas, getting a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and Pharisees, went there with lights and with arms. 4 Then Jesus, having knowledge of everything which was coming on him, went forward and said to them, Who are you looking for? 5 Their answer was, Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus said, I am he. And Judas, who was false to him, was there at their side. 6 And when he said to them, I am he, they went back, falling to the earth.
  • Ps 9:3 : 3 When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.
  • Job 31:31 : 31 If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.
  • Ps 18:38-42 : 38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet. 39 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me. 40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off. 41 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer. 42 Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
  • Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.
  • Ps 62:3-4 : 3 How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling? 4 Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)
  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.
  • Isa 8:15 : 15 And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 22:38-41
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    78%

    38 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

    39 I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

    40 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

    41 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Ps 18:37-40
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    77%

    37 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

    38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

    39 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

    40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

  • Ps 56:2
    77%

    2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

  • Ps 9:3
    77%

    3 When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.

  • Ps 27:3
    77%

    3 Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

  • Ps 27:1
    76%

    1 <Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

  • Ps 71:10
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    10 For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

  • Job 27:7
    75%

    7 Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.

  • Ps 17:9
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    9 From the evil-doers who are violent to me, and from those who are round me, desiring my death.

  • Ps 118:13
    75%

    13 I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

  • Ps 13:4
    75%

    4 And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

  • Ps 38:19-20
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    75%

    19 But they are strong who have hate for me without cause: those who are against me falsely are increased in numbers.

    20 They give me back evil for good; they are my haters because I go after the thing which is right.

  • Ps 27:12
    75%

    12 Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

  • Ps 35:15
    75%

    15 But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

  • Ps 25:19
    74%

    19 See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

  • Ps 3:7
    74%

    7 Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.

  • Ps 71:13
    74%

    13 Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

  • Ps 22:16
    74%

    16 Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

  • Ps 41:5
    74%

    5 My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?

  • Ps 41:9
    74%

    9 Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

  • Ps 7:5
    74%

    5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)

  • Ps 22:13
    74%

    13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Ps 57:6
    73%

    6 They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

  • Jer 18:22
    73%

    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

  • Ps 118:7
    73%

    7 The Lord is my great helper: I will see my desire against my haters.

  • Job 16:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

    10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.

  • Ps 56:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

  • Ps 143:3
    73%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • Ps 102:8
    73%

    8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

  • Ps 17:13
    73%

    13 Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.

  • Jer 20:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

    11 But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

  • Job 30:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

    13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

    14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

  • Ps 54:3
    73%

    3 For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

  • Mic 3:3
    73%

    3 Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

  • Ps 59:3
    72%

    3 For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

  • Ps 55:3
    72%

    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

  • 2 Sam 22:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 He made me free from my strong hater, from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

    19 They came on me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my support.