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When evildoers come at me
    to devour my flesh,[a](A)
These my enemies and foes
    themselves stumble and fall.

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  1. 27:2 To devour my flesh: the psalmist’s enemies are rapacious beasts (Ps 7:3; 17:12; 22:14, 17).

When the wicked advance against me
    to devour[a] me,
it is my enemies and my foes
    who will stumble and fall.(A)

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  1. Psalm 27:2 Or slander

11 Aram[a] from the east and the Philistines from the west—
    they devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this, his wrath is not turned back,
    and his hand is still outstretched!

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  1. 9:11 Aram: the Syrian kingdom, with its capital at Damascus.

11 But the Lord has strengthened Rezin’s(A) foes against them
    and has spurred their enemies on.

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