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Psalms 27:2–3

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When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
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From verse 2

  1. Psalms 118:12Rank 1 from verse 2
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    12They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

  2. Psalms 3:7Rank 2 from verse 2
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    7Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

  3. Isaiah 8:15Rank 3 from verse 2
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    15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

  4. Psalms 14:4Rank 4 from verse 2
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    4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.

  5. Psalms 22:16Rank 5 from verse 2
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    16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

From verse 3

  1. Psalms 3:6Rank 1 from verse 3
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    6I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

  2. 1 Peter 3:14Rank 2 from verse 3
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    14But and if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

  3. Romans 8:35–37Rank 3 from verse 3
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    35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

    36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

    37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

  4. Philippians 1:28Rank 4 from verse 3
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    28And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

  5. 2 Corinthians 5:6–8Rank 5 from verse 3
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    6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

    7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

    8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

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Psalms 27:2

COMBINED MEANING

even

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1. Used to emphasize, include, or precisely identify what is meant: indeed, precisely, or namely. 2. Used to mark a boundary, endpoint, or full reach in place, time, or degree: up to, as far as, or through. 3. In ‘even as,’ ‘even so,’ and like constructions, just as, exactly so, or in the same manner. 4. The evening, or close of day. 5. Equal, level, identical, balanced, or uniform.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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foes

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Enemies, adversaries, or hostile persons who oppose, attack, or seek another’s harm or defeat.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

eat

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To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

stumbled

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Sense 1: Lost footing, tripped, or fell. Sense 2: Figuratively, faltered or took offence at an obstacle.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

fell

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1. Came or went down; dropped, bowed, lay flat, collapsed, or lost an upright or raised place. 2. Was slain, died, was overthrown, or came under another's hand or power. 3. Came upon, seized, or affected someone or something, or entered a stated condition such as sickness, sleep, fear, lusting, or a trance. 4. Attacked or set upon. 5. Happened or came to pass. 6. Joined, yielded, went over, or departed from a person, side, office, or former standing. 7. Was assigned or determined by lot or portion. 8. As the present verb fell, to cut or bring down a tree or other standing thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Psalms 27:3

COMBINED MEANING

host

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Sense 1: An army, assembled company, or multitude, including the ordered host of heaven. Sense 2: A person who receives, lodges, or entertains another.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

should

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A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

against

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Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

COMBINED MEANING

heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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fear

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1. Alarm, dread, terror, or apprehension. 2. Reverence, awe, or respectful regard. 3. A person, thing, or event feared or revered. 4. To fear, dread, or reverence.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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war

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Sense 1: Armed conflict. Sense 2: As a verb, to fight or contend.

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rise

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To get up, stand, ascend, increase, begin, appear, come forth, awaken, proceed to act or oppose, attain authority, or return from the dead.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

confident

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Assured, trusting, bold, or persuaded so as to act without fear or doubt.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616

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1THE 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?

2When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

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3Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

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4One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

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