Psalms 27:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
  • Job 19:22 : 22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • John 18:3-6 : 3 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? 5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them. 6 As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
  • Ps 9:3 : 3 When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
  • Job 31:31 : 31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
  • Ps 18:38-42 : 38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet. 39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. 40 Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not. 42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
  • Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
  • Ps 62:3-4 : 3 How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. 4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
  • Ps 118:12 : 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.
  • Isa 8:15 : 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
  • Ps 3:7 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 22:38-41
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    38I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

    39And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

    40For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

    41Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

  • Ps 18:37-40
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    77%

    37I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

    38I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

    39For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

    40Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

  • Ps 56:2
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    2Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

  • Ps 9:3
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    3When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

  • Ps 27:3
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    3Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

  • Ps 27:1
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    1The 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?

  • Ps 71:10
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    10For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

  • Job 27:7
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    7Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.

  • Ps 17:9
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    9From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

  • Ps 118:13
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    13Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

  • Ps 13:4
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    4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  • Ps 38:19-20
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    19But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

    20They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

  • Ps 27:12
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    12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

  • Ps 25:19
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    19Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • Ps 3:7
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    7Arise, 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.

  • Ps 71:13
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    13Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

  • Ps 22:16
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    16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

  • Ps 41:5
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    5Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

  • Ps 41:9
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    9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

  • Ps 7:5
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    5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Ps 118:7
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    7The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.

  • Job 16:9-10
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    9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

    10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

  • Ps 56:5-6
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    73%

    5Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • Ps 143:3
    73%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • Ps 17:13
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    13Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

  • Jer 20:10-11
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    10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

  • Job 30:12-14
    3 verses
    73%

    12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

    13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

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    3For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

  • Mic 3:3
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    3Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

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    3For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

  • Ps 55:3
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    3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • 2 Sam 22:18-19
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    18He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

    19They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.