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Psalm 27:2

New International Version

When the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall.

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Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’—

They swarmed around me like bees, but they were consumed as quickly as burning thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them down.

Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on the Lord.

The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.

Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet.

Arise, Lord! Deliver me, my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on God.

My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.

Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.”