Psalms 27:2

World English Bible (2000)

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, 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 don't call on Yahweh?
  • Job 19:22 : 22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
  • John 18:3-6 : 3 Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons. 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went forth, and said to them, "Who are you looking for?" 5 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When therefore he said to them, "I am he," they went backward, and fell to the ground.
  • Ps 9:3 : 3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.
  • Job 31:31 : 31 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'
  • Ps 18:4 : 4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
  • Ps 18:38-42 : 38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. 39 For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them. 42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
  • Ps 22:16 : 16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
  • Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?
  • Ps 62:3-4 : 3 How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? 4 They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. 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 burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.
  • Isa 8:15 : 15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."
  • Ps 3:7 : 7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

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    38 I have pursued my enemies and destroyed them. I didn't turn again until they were consumed.

    39 I have consumed them, and struck them through, so that they can't arise. Yes, they have fallen under my feet.

    40 For you have armed me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

    41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

  • Ps 18:37-40
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    37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again until they are consumed.

    38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

    39 For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

    40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

  • Ps 56:2
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    2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

  • Ps 9:3
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    3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish in your presence.

  • Ps 27:3
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    3 Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

  • Ps 27:1
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    1 Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

  • Ps 71:10
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    10 For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

  • Job 27:7
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    7 "Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

  • Ps 17:9
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    9 from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

  • Ps 118:13
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    13 You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

  • Ps 13:4
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    4 Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

  • Ps 38:19-20
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    19 But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

    20 They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

  • Ps 27:12
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    12 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

  • Ps 35:15
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    15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

  • Ps 25:19
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    19 Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

  • Ps 3:7
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    7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

  • Ps 71:13
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    13 Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

  • Ps 22:16
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    16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

  • Ps 41:5
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    5 My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

  • Ps 41:9
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    9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

  • Ps 7:5
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    5 let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

  • Ps 22:13
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    13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6 They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Ps 118:7
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    7 Yahweh is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

  • Job 16:9-10
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    9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

    10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

  • Ps 56:5-6
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    5 All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

  • Ps 17:13
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    13 Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

  • Jer 20:10-11
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    10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

    11 But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

  • Job 30:12-14
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    73%

    12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

    13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

    14 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

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    3 For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

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

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    3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

  • Ps 55:3
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    3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

  • 2 Sam 22:18-19
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    18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

    19 They came on me in the day of my calamity, but Yahweh was my support.