Psalms 27:2
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
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Study Note
The confident declaration that when enemies came to devour the psalmist they 'stumbled and fell' presents past deliverance as the ground of present confidence. The vivid imagery of enemies coming to 'eat up my flesh' draws on the ancient convention of battle boasting while simultaneously using predator-prey metaphors to describe the asymmetry of the danger. The stumbling and falling of the enemies establishes a paradox: the stronger falls while the weak stands, because God is the unseen variable. Romans 8:31 ('If God is for us, who can be against us?') captures the same theological confidence, and Luther famously drew on Psalm 27 for his bold stance at the Diet of Worms.
Andere Übersetzungen
When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine 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.
When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.
Querverweise
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou …
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not …
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt …
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called …