Psalms 27:2

Psalms 27:2. When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Good men have enemies because they are good men. There are two classes in the world, - the righteous and the wicked, - the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent; and you know that, even in Eden, the Lord said to the serpent, "I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed." We must expect, then, if we are among the righteous, that we shall be attacked by the wicked; but, when they come against us, we may believe that they shall be overcome even before we strike a single blow in our own defense.