Psalms 27:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 14:4 : 4 Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?
  • Job 19:22 : 22 Why do you persecute me as God does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • John 18:3-6 : 3 Then Judas, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. 4 Jesus, knowing all things that would come upon him, went forth and said to them, Whom do you seek? 5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus said to them, I am he. And Judas, who betrayed him, stood with them. 6 As soon as he said to them, I am he, they drew back and fell to the ground.
  • Ps 9:3 : 3 When my enemies turn back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.
  • Job 31:31 : 31 If the men of my tent have not said, 'Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.'
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
  • Ps 18:38-42 : 38 I have wounded them so that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet. 39 For you have girded me with strength for the battle: you have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy those who hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he did not answer them. 42 Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind: I cast them out like dirt in the streets.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed 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 you imagine mischief against a man? You shall all be slain; as a leaning wall shall you be, and as a tottering fence. 4 They only plan to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
  • Ps 118:12 : 12 They surrounded me like bees; they are quenched like 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 you have smitten all my enemies on the cheekbone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 22:38-41
    4 verses
    78%

    38 I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

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

    40 For you have girded me with strength for battle: those who rose up against me you have subdued under me.

    41 You have also given me the necks of my enemies, that I might destroy those who hate me.

  • Ps 18:37-40
    4 verses
    77%

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

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

    39 For you have girded me with strength for the battle: you have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

    40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy those who hate me.

  • Ps 56:2
    77%

    2 My enemies would daily swallow me up, for there are many who fight against me, O Most High.

  • Ps 9:3
    77%

    3 When my enemies turn back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.

  • Ps 27:3
    77%

    3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise against me, in this I will be confident.

  • Ps 27:1
    76%

    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?

  • Ps 71:10
    76%

    10 For my enemies speak against me; and those who lie in wait for my soul take counsel together,

  • Job 27:7
    75%

    7 Let my enemy be like the wicked, and he who rises up against me like the unrighteous.

  • Ps 17:9
    75%

    9 From the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.

  • Ps 118:13
    75%

    13 You thrust hard at me that I might fall, but the LORD helped me.

  • Ps 13:4
    75%

    4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  • Ps 38:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19 But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong; and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

    20 Those also who render evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.

  • Ps 27:12
    75%

    12 Do not deliver me to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out violence.

  • Ps 35:15
    75%

    15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

  • Ps 25:19
    74%

    19 Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • Ps 3:7
    74%

    7 Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies on the cheekbone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

  • Ps 71:13
    74%

    13 Let them be confounded and consumed who are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor who seek my hurt.

  • Ps 22:16
    74%

    16 For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

  • Ps 41:5
    74%

    5 My enemies speak evil of me, 'When shall he die, and his name perish?'

  • Ps 41:9
    74%

    9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

  • Ps 7:5
    74%

    5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

  • Ps 22:13
    74%

    13 They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

  • Ps 57:6
    73%

    6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Jer 18:22
    73%

    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.

  • Ps 118:7
    73%

    7 The LORD takes my part with those who help me; therefore, I will see my desire upon those who hate me.

  • Job 16:9-10
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    73%

    9 He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

    10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • Ps 56:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 Every day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, waiting for my life.

  • Ps 143:3
    73%

    3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • Ps 102:8
    73%

    8 My enemies reproach me all day long; those who are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • Ps 17:13
    73%

    13 Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down; deliver my soul from the wicked, which is your sword:

  • Jer 20:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, they say, and we will report it. All my familiar friends watched for my faltering, saying, Perhaps he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11 But 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%

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

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

    14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

  • Ps 54:3
    73%

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

  • Mic 3:3
    73%

    3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.

  • Ps 59:3
    72%

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

  • Ps 55:3
    72%

    3 Because 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
    2 verses
    72%

    18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me: for they were too strong for me.

    19 They confronted me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support.