To eat up my flesh; greedy to devour me at one morsel. Compare Job 19:22, Job 31:31.
When 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...
XXVII. Many scholars hold that we have here two Pss., and not without reason. Psalms 27:1-6 is the expression of childlike trust under favourable...
enemies . adversaries.
2. When the wicked, etc. There is no reason for translating this sentence, as some interpreters do, into the future tense. (579) But while...
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. When the wicked - came upon me - Near as I...
To eat up my flesh— See Job 31:31 . This expresses the utmost rancour or envy. There is the same expression in Ecclesiastes 4:5 where, as it sho...
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. When ... came ... to eat up my flesh...
This Ps. falls naturally into two parts, Psalms 27:1-6 and Psalms 27:7-14 , which are in such marked contrast as to make it probable that here, as...
To eat up my flesh ] like wild beasts of prey. They stumbled and fell ] Past victories inspire present confidence: cp. David's words to Saul ( 1 Sa...
When... — Literally, In the coming against me ( of ) the wicked to devour my flesh — my enemies and my foes to me — themselves stumbled and...
Psalms 27:1-14 THE hypothesis that two originally distinct psalms or fragments are here blended has much in its favour. The rhythm and style of th...
the Song of Fearless Trust in God Psalms 27:1-14 This psalm probably dates from the time when the exiled king, surrounded by unscrupulous foes,...
The real significance of this psalm is that of the experience of worship. It is somewhat strange that the remarkable contrast between the first (vv....
We shall enter into the spirit of this most lovely Psalm with double delight, if, as it refers so highly to Christ, we keep him in view through the w...
When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me ,.... They are wicked men, men of malignant spirits, and evildoers, who are the enemi...
When the wicked, [even] mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Ver. 2. When the wicked, even mine enem...
When my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh Greedy to devour me: aiming at no less than my utter destruction, and confident they should effect it;...
Devout Confidence; Encouragement in Prayers. A psalm of David. 1 T...
When evil-doers came upon me, To eat up my flesh, Even my adversaries and my foes, They stumbled and fell. He casts his mind back to the past, an...
INTRODUCTION This psalm has been referred by some to the period of David’s waiting for the kingdom; by others, to the time of Absalom’s rebellion....
Psalms 27:1 . The LORD is my tight and my salvation; whom shall I fear? If a man has a light that can never go out, a sun which will never set, a...
Psalms 27:1 . The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? If all your light comes from the Father of lights, with whom is no variab...
Psalms 27:1 . The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? A sort of...
David is in the darkness of sorrow, his enemies are many and mighty, and they make a dead set against him, and seek utterly to destroy him; but he fi...
Psalms 27:1 . The Lord is my light and my salvation; First comes light, and then salvation. We are not saved in ignorance; the knowledge of our s...
Very much of the language of David used here, I trust, we can make our own. May the Spirit of God lead us to understand, by experience, what he has w...
REFLECTIONS . This Psalm professes to have been written in mature age, and after David's head was lifted up above his enemies. The Lord was become h...
The Lord is my light and my salvation. Implicit trust This psalm was written by a man who was at the moment far down in the depths of spiritual...
They stumbled and fell. God’s preservation of David in extreme danger I. the state and condition of David’s enemies, They are wicked men. The r...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of those which have been called "composite"; and certainly it falls into two parts which offer the strongest poss...
The Believer's Trust in God and His Word. A psalm of David, written probably about the same time as the preceding one, picturing the state of mind...
When the wicked, the doers of evil and mischief, even mine enemies and my foes, those who oppose and oppress him on all sides, came upon me, appr...
Isaiah 8:15 ; Job 19:22 ; Job 31:31 ; John 18:3-6 ; Psalms 118:12 ; Psalms 14:4 ; Psalms 18:38-42 ; Psalms 18:4 ; Psalms 22:16 ; Psalms 3:7...
Light — My counsellor in all my difficulties, and my comforter and deliverer in all my distresses. Strength — The supporter and preserver of my lif...
2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, camea upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.