Psalm 27:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh— my adversaries and foes— they shall stumble and fall.

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And many among them shall stumble; they shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”

They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before you.

Rise up, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

Why do you, like God, pursue me, never satisfied with my flesh?

For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they bound my hands and feet.

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of perdition assailed me;

if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’—

Have they no knowledge, those evildoers, who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon God?