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Psalm 27:2
New Catholic Bible

2 When evildoers close in on me
    to devour my flesh,[a]
it is they, my adversaries and enemies,
    who stumble and fall.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 27:2 To devour my flesh: the psalmist’s enemies are like rapacious beasts (see Pss 7:3; 17:12; 22:13f, 17); in the figurative sense, this refers to calumny (see Dan 3:8).
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