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Psalm 11 · Book One · David

For the choirmaster. Of David.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

For the choirmaster

About this psalm

Someone tells David to run — flee as a bird to your mountain — and this psalm is his refusal. He does not pretend the danger is imagined. He grants that the foundations are being destroyed, asks what the righteous can do, and then answers by looking somewhere else entirely: The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven.

Read it when the advice you are getting is to get out, and you are not sure.

My psalms

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¹In the LORD put I my trust:how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?²For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.³If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?⁴The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven:his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.⁵The LORD trieth the righteous:but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.⁶Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest:this shall be the portion of their cup.⁷For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness;his countenance doth behold the upright.

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