Why will ye pursue me as God, and will ye not be satisfied from my flesh?
Psalm 27:2 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 In the drawing near of those doing evil to me, to eat my flesh, adversaries and enemies to me, they were weak and fell Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, They stumbled and fell. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. American Standard Version (1901) When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. Common English Bible When evildoers come at me trying to eat me up— it’s they, my foes and my enemies, who stumble and fall! Catholic Public Domain Version Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple. |
Why will ye pursue me as God, and will ye not be satisfied from my flesh?
If the men of my tent said not, Who will give from his flesh? We shall not be satisfied.
They surrounded me as bees; they were quenched as the fire of thorns: in the name of Jehovah for I will destroy them.
Did not the workers of vanity know? eating my people they ate bread; they called not Jehovah.
The pains of death surrounded me, and the torrents of Belial made me afraid.
For dogs surrounded me: the assembly of those being evil moved round about me: they digged my hands and my feet
Arise, O Jehovah; save me, my God, for thou didst strike all mine enemies upon the cheek; thou didst break the teeth of the unjust.
Did not those transgressing know any thing? eating up my people, they ate bread: they called not upon God.
In the turning away of mine enemies backward, they shall be weak and perish from thy face.
And many fainted among them and fell, and were broken, and snared, and taken.