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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 27:2

When... — Literally, In the coming against me (of) the wicked to devour my flesh — my enemies and my foes to me — themselves stumbled and fell. Job 19:22 would allow us to understand those who eat up flesh, as a figure for calumniators and detractors; but the context marks out the situation so clearly as that of a warrior, that we rather take it as a general metaphor for savage and violent attacks. To me, is an emphatic repetition — my enemies, mine.

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See also Psalms 27:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 27:2. _WHEN THE WICKED - CAME UPON ME_] Near as I appeared to you to be in danger of losing my life, I was safe enough in the hands of the Lord; and those who thought to _have eaten me up...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 very great danger, and when God interposed to save him....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 27 Holy Longings and Anticipations _ 1. Confidence in the Lord (Psalms 27:1)_ 2. Longings and anticipations (Psalms 27:4) 3. Earnest prayer in trial and trust in the Lord ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XXVII. Many scholars hold that we have here two Pss., and not without reason. Psalms 27:1 is the expression of childlike trust under favourable circumstances: in Psalms 27:7 the poet is in grievous af...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ENEMIES. adversaries....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    With Jehovah on his side, he knows no fear. This faith, the constant theme of prophet and psalmist, finds its N.T. extension in Romans 8:31....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    When evil-doers came near against me to eat my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. This may refer to past experience, or it may be a confident anticipation of the disco...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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 should be translated, the fool is said to sit lazily with fo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 27 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Trust and Prayer in the Hour of Danger. ANALYSIS Part I., Two pentameter hexastichs: Stanza I., Psalms 27:1-3, That which Jehovah Is Now he Has Been in the Past, and Wil...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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, they stumbled. The Hebrew order is emphatic, 'When the...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    27:2 enemies, (f-7) See Notes, Psalms 8:2 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. falls naturally into two parts, Psalms 27:1 and Psalms 27:7, which are in such marked contrast as to make it probable that here, as in Psalms 19, two independent poems have been combined. The...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 Samuel 17:34)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בִּ קְרֹ֤ב עָלַ֨י ׀ מְרֵעִים֮ לֶ אֱכֹ֪ל אֶת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 27:1 THE hypothesis that two originally distinct psalms or fragments are here blended has much in its favour. The rhythm and style of the latter half (Psalms 27:7) are strikingly unlike those o...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE SONG OF FEARLESS TRUST IN GOD Psalms 27:1 This psalm probably dates from the time when the exiled king, surrounded by unscrupulous foes, looked from his hiding-place beyond the Jordan to the Holy...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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. Psa 27:1-6) and second (vv. Psa 27:7-14) parts has...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Pray. Hebrew, "cry....to the recess of thy sanctuary, (Haydock) or to thy oracle." Septuagint place the whole for a part. The tabernacle was often styled temple, 1 Kings i. 9. To lift up the hands wa...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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 whole of it. And that it is Jesus who is principally...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._When the wicked, etc. _There is no reason for translating this sentence, as some interpreters do, into the future tense. (579) But while we retain the past tense which the prophet employs, the word...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In Psalms 27 we have two distinct parts, and, I apprehend, then in the last two Verses (Psa 27:21-22) the result for the mind of the saint as taught of God. The first part, Verses 1-6 (Psalms 27:1-6),...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 enemies and foes of the people of God, and who hate them w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 enemies, came upon me_] Made impression upon me, with ut...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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; _they stumbled and fell_ Not, I smote them and the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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, approaching him with marked hostility, TO EAT UP MY FLESH,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 of one who is persecuted 'Without cause and longs fo...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CAME UPON ME: _ Heb._ approached against me...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 The Lord, who is the believer's light, is the strength of his life; not only by whom, but in whom he lives and moves. In God let us strengthen ourselves. The gracious presence of God, his power,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    TO EAT UP MY FLESH; greedy to devour me at one morsel. Compare JOB 19:22, JOB 31:31....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 27:2 wicked H7489 (H8688) came H7126 (H8800) up H398 (H8800) flesh H1320 enemies H6862 foes...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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, and remembers how his enemies had tried to destroy him...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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, and a salvation which must always save, and God is all...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 variableness, neither shadow of turning, you need not be af...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 trembling seems to have been creeping over him, so h...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 finds his comfort where every true believer must ever...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 written. Psalms 27:1. _The LORD is my light and my...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 sinfulness is revealed to us, we discover our true con...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David glories in Jehovah's name and expresses triumphant faith. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: God is the believer's light and strength by whom and in whom he lives. We should therefo...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 his light and salvation; whom in future was he to fear...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 reason whereof is the enmity put by God Himself between...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 conflict, and yet was holding a steady front against...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 27:1. In singing Psalms 27:1, God’s people have a way to express confidence in him and to respond to challenging life situations. The psalm de

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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. _Hengstenberg_ says: “All attempts to find out any oc...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS psalm is one of those which have been called "composite"; and certainly it falls into two parts which offer the strongest possible contrast the one to the other. Part 1. (Psalms 27:1)...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 8:15; Job 19:22; Job 31:31; John 18:3; Psalms 118:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Light — My counsellor in all my difficulties, and my comforter and deliverer in all my distresses. Strength — The supporter and preserver of my life....

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