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Psalms 11

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

Psalms 10 Psalms 12

¹In Yahweh, I take refuge.

²For, behold, the wicked bend their bows.

³If the foundations are destroyed,

⁴Yahweh is in his holy temple.

⁵Yahweh examines the righteous,

⁶On the wicked he will rain blazing coals;

⁷For Yahweh is righteous.

¹In Yahweh, I take refuge.

²For, behold, the wicked bend their bows.

³If the foundations are destroyed,

⁴Yahweh is in his holy temple.

⁵Yahweh examines the righteous,

⁶On the wicked he will rain blazing coals;

⁷For Yahweh is righteous.

¹In Yahweh, I take refuge.

²For, behold, the wicked bend their bows.

³If the foundations are destroyed,

⁴Yahweh is in his holy temple.

⁵Yahweh examines the righteous,

⁶On the wicked he will rain blazing coals;

⁷For Yahweh is righteous.

In context

Psalms 11 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

¹⁴But you do see trouble and grief.

¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked.

¹⁶Yahweh is King forever and ever!

¹⁷Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble.

¹⁸to judge the fatherless and the oppressed,

Immediately after

¹Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases.

²Everyone lies to his neighbor.

³May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,

⁴who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.

⁵“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,