Psalm 27:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me, my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.

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And many shall stumble thereon; 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 thee.

Arise, O Lord! Deliver me, O my God! For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek, thou dost break the teeth of the wicked.

Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

Yea, dogs are round about me; a company of evildoers encircle me; they have pierced my hands and feet—

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

if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’

Have those who work evil no understanding, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?