Psalms 27:12 · KJV
“Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.”
— Psalms 27:12
Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. {a plain...: Heb. a way of plainness} {mine...: Heb. those which observe me}
{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms 27 — Context
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. {take...: Heb. gather me}
11Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. {a plain...: Heb. a way of plainness} {mine...: Heb. those which observe me}
12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13{I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Cross References
Matthew 26:59-60
But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, {yet} found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
Psalms 31:8
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
Psalms 35:11
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge {things} that I knew not. {False...: Heb. Witnesses of wrong} {they...: Heb. they asked me}
Psalms 41:11
By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Acts 6:11-13
Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and {against} God.
Psalms 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. {Ah...: Heb. Ah, ah, our soul}
Psalms 140:8
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; {lest} they exalt themselves. Selah. {lest...: or, let them not be exalted}
Acts 9:1
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,