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Psalms 27:2-3

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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 

27:3 Even when an army is deployed against me,

I do not fear. 5 

Even when war is imminent, 6 

I remain confident. 7 

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.”

5 tn Heb “my heart does not fear.”

6 tn Heb “if war rises up against me.”

7 tn Heb “in this [i.e., “during this situation”] I am trusting.”



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