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Psalms 11
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1For the end, a Psalm of David, upon the eighth.
1In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
2Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.
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.
3Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.
3If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
4Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words:
4The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
5who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?
5The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
6Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord, I will set [them] in safety; I will speak [to them] thereof openly.
6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
7The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved [in] a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.