Psalms 27:2

Psalms 27:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
• New International Version (NIV)When the wicked advance against me to devour me, it is my enemies and my foes who will stumble and fall.
• English Standard Version (ESV)When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.
• New King James Version (NKJV)When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell.

Context of Psalms 27:2

1The Lord is my light and my salvation. Who is there to fear? The Lord is my life’s fortress. Who is there to be afraid of? Evildoers closed in on me to tear me to pieces. My opponents and enemies stumbled and fell. 3Even though an army sets up camp against me, my heart will not be afraid. Even though a war breaks out against me, I will still have confidence ⌞in the Lord⌟. 4I have asked one thing from the Lord. This I will seek: to remain in the Lord’s house all the days of my life in order to gaze at the Lord’s beauty and to search for an answer in his temple.

Psalms 27:2 word by word

בִּקְרֹ֤ב עָלַ֨י׀ מְרֵעִים֮ לֶאֱכֹ֪ל אֶת־בְּשָׂ֫רִ֥י צָרַ֣י וְאֹיְבַ֣י לִ֑י הֵ֖מָּה כָשְׁל֣וּ וְנָפָֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• When the wickedרָעַעrâ‛a‛ · be evilH7489
• mine enemiesצַרtsar tsâr · enemyH6862
• and my foesאֹיֵב'ôyêb 'ôyêb · enemyH341
• cameקָרַבqârab · to present: comeH7126
• upon me to eat upאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• my fleshבָּשָׂרbâώâr · fleshH1320
• they stumbledכָּשַׁלkâshal · to stumbleH3782
• and fellנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307

Cross-references for Psalms 27:2

• Psalms 3:7Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! You have slapped all my enemies in the face. You have smashed the teeth of wicked people.
• Psalms 18:4The ropes of death had become tangled around me. The torrents of destruction had overwhelmed me.
• Psalms 22:16Dogs have surrounded me. A mob has encircled me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
• Psalms 62:3How long will all of you attack a person? How long will you try to murder him, as though he were a leaning wall or a sagging fence?
• Psalms 14:4Are all those troublemakers, those who devour my people as if they were devouring food, so ignorant that they do not call on the Lord?
• Psalms 53:4Are all those troublemakers, those who devour my people as if they were devouring food, so ignorant that they do not call on God?
• Job 19:22Why do you pursue me as God does? Why are you never satisfied with my flesh?
• Job 31:31“If the people who were in my tent had said, ‘We wish we had never filled ⌞our stomachs⌟ with his food’….
• Psalms 18:38I wounded them so badly that they were unable to get up. They fell under my feet.
• Psalms 118:12They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thornbushes. ⌞So armed⌟ with the name of the Lord, I defeated them.
• Isaiah 8:15Many will stumble. They will fall and be broken. They will be trapped and caught.
• John 18:3So Judas took a troop of soldiers and the guards from the chief priests and Pharisees and went to the garden. They were carrying lanterns, torches, and weapons.

Commentaries on Psalms 27:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2When the wicked - came upon me - Near as I appeared to you to be in danger of losing my life, I was safe enough in the hands of the Lord; and those who thought to have eaten me up, stumbled, failed of their purpose and fell; the Philistine lost his own life.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me - This refers, doubtless, to some particular period of his past life when he was in very great danger, and when God interposed to save him. The margin here is, “approached against me.” The literal rendering would be, “in the drawing near against me of the wicked to eat up my flesh.” The reference is to some period when they purposed an attack upon him, and when he was in imminent danger from…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The psalmist's enemies want to take advantage of him and live off his resources (see study note on Psalm 14:4).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. eat ... my flesh--(Job 19:22; Psa 14:4). The allusion to wild beasts illustrates their rapacity. they stumbled--"they" is emphatic; not I, but they were destroyed.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 27:2

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Commentaries on Psalms 27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings