Psalm 27:2 {26:2}
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Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

wicked

Psalm 3:7 For thou hast struck all them who are my adversaries without cause: thou hast broken the teeth of sinners.

Psalm 18:4 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

Psalm 22:16 For many dogs have encompassed me: the council of the malignant hath besieged me. They have dug my hands and feet.

Psalm 62:3,4 How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence. . . .

came upon [heb.

Psalm 14:4 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Psalm 53:4 Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?

Job 19:22 Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?

Job 31:31 If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

they

Psalm 18:38-42 I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet. . . .

Psalm 118:12 They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.

Isaiah 8:15 And very many of them shall stumble and fall, and shall be broken in pieces, and shall be snared, and taken.

John 18:3-6 Judas therefore having received a band of soldiers and servants from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. . . .

Context
The LORD is My Salvation
1The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid? 2Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.3If armies in camp should stand together against me, my heart shall not fear. If a battle should rise up against me, in this will I be confident.…
Cross References
Psalm 9:3
When my enemy shall be turned back: they shall be weakened, and perish before thy face.

Psalm 14:4
Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?

Psalm 124:6
Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth.

Daniel 3:17
For behold our God, whom we worship, is able to save us from the furnace of burning fire, and to deliver us out of thy hands, O king.

Daniel 11:19
And he shall turn his face to the empire of his own land, and he shall stumble, and fall, and shall not be found.

Micah 3:3
You that hate good, and love evil: that violently pluck off their skins from them and their flesh from their bones?

Lexicon
When the wicked
מְרֵעִים֮ (mə·rê·‘îm)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad

came
בִּקְרֹ֤ב (biq·rōḇ)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7126: To come near, approach

upon me
עָלַ֨י ׀ (‘ā·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

to devour
לֶאֱכֹ֪ל (le·’ĕ·ḵōl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

my flesh,
בְּשָׂ֫רִ֥י (bə·śā·rî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

my enemies
צָרַ֣י (ṣā·ray)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6862: Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent

and foes
וְאֹיְבַ֣י (wə·’ō·yə·ḇay)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 341: Hating, an adversary

stumbled
כָשְׁל֣וּ (ḵā·šə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall

and fell.
וְנָפָֽלוּ׃ (wə·nā·p̄ā·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5307: To fall, lie


Additional Translations
When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

When evil-doers drew nigh against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and mine enemies, they fainted and fell.

When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.
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