Why do you, like God, persecute me and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Psalm 27:2 - Modern King James Version When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat my flesh, they stumbled 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 do you, like God, persecute me and are not satisfied with my flesh?
if the men of my camp did not say, Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat?
They surround me like bees; they are put out like the fire of thorns; for in the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.
The sorrows of death hemmed me in, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
and You have brought Me into the dust of death. For dogs have circled around Me; the band of spoilers have hemmed Me in, piercers of My hands and My feet.
Arise, O Jehovah; save me, O my God; for You have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone. You have broken the teeth of the ungodly.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God.
When my enemies have turned back, they shall fall and perish before You.
And many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.