2 When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.
Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
So Judas, getting a band of armed men and police from the chief priests and Pharisees, went there with lights and with arms. Then Jesus, having knowledge of everything which was coming on him, went forward and said to them, Who are you looking for? Their answer was, Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus said, I am he. And Judas, who was false to him, was there at their side. And when he said to them, I am he, they went back, falling to the earth.
If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?
When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.
I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet. For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me. By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off. They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer. Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.
Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling? Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)
They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.
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Commentary on Psalms 27 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 27
Some think David penned this psalm before his coming to the throne, when he was in the midst of his troubles, and perhaps upon occasion of the death of his parents; but the Jews think he penned it when he was old, upon occasion of the wonderful deliverance he had from the sword of the giant, when Abishai succoured him (2 Sa. 21:16, 17) and his people thereupon resolved he should never venture his life again in battle, lest he should quench the light of Israel. Perhaps it was not penned upon any particular occasion; but it is very expressive of the pious and devout affections with which gracious souls are carried out towards God at all times, especially in times of trouble. Here is,
And let our hearts be thus affected in singing this psalm.
A psalm of David.
Psa 27:1-6
We may observe here,
Psa 27:7-14
David in these verses expresses,