Psalms 27:2

When evil men attack me ¹  to devour my flesh, ²  when my adversaries and enemies attack me, ³  they stumble and fall. ⁴ 

biblegateway Psa 27:2

When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.

biblegateway Psa 27:2

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh, My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

biblegateway Psa 27:2

When evil people come to destroy me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.

biblegateway Psa 27:2

When vandal hordes ride down ready to eat me alive, Those bullies and toughs fall flat on their faces.

SABDAweb Psa 27:2

When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

bibleoremus Psa 27:2

When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh—my adversaries and foes—they shall stumble and fall.

biblegateway Psa 27:2

When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell.

biblegateway Psa 27:2

When evil men attack me ¹  to devour my flesh, ²  when my adversaries and enemies attack me, ³  they stumble and fall. ⁴ 

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.”