“Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 27 contains 14 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.