Text -- Psalms 27:2 (NET)

27:2 When evil men attack me to devour my flesh, when my adversaries and enemies attack me, they stumble and fall.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 27:2

¹ tn Heb “draw near to me.”

² sn To devour my flesh. The psalmist compares his enemies to dangerous, hungry predators (see 2 Kgs 9:36; Ezek 39:17).

³ tn Heb “my adversaries and my enemies against me.” The verb “draw near” (that is, “attack”) is understood by ellipsis; see the previous line.

⁴ tn The Hebrew verbal forms are perfects. The translation assumes the psalmist is generalizing here, but another option is to take this as a report of past experience, “when evil men attacked me…they stumbled and fell.”