Psalm 11-16

American Standard Version

11 In Jehovah do I take refuge:
How say ye to my soul,
Flee ^[a]as a bird to your mountain;
² For, lo, the wicked bend the bow,
They make ready their arrow upon the string,
That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;
^3 [b]If the foundations be destroyed,
What can the righteous do?
⁴ Jehovah is in his holy temple;
Jehovah, his throne is in heaven;
His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
⁵ Jehovah trieth the righteous;
But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
⁶ Upon the wicked he will rain snares;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
⁷ For Jehovah is righteous; he loveth ^[c]righteousness:
^[d]The upright shall behold his face.

12 Help, Jehovah; for the godly man ceaseth;
For ^[f]the faithful fail from among the children of men.
² They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor:
With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
³ Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaketh great things;
⁴ Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail;
Our lips are ^[g]our own: who is lord over us?
⁵ Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy,
Now will I arise, saith Jehovah;
I will set him in the safety he panteth for.
⁶ The words of Jehovah are pure words;
As silver tried in a furnace on the earth,
Purified seven times.
⁷ Thou wilt keep them, O Jehovah,
Thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever.
⁸ The wicked walk on every side,
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

13 How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever?
How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
² How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
³ Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God:
Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
⁴ Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him;
Lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.
⁵ But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness;
My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
⁶ I will sing unto Jehovah,
Because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

14 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
They are corrupt, they have done abominable works;
There is none that doeth good.
² Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there were any that did ^[h]understand,
That did seek after God.
³ They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy;
There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And call not upon Jehovah?
⁵ There were they in great fear;
For God is in the generation of the righteous.
⁶ Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor,
^[i]Because Jehovah is his refuge.
⁷ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion!
When Jehovah ^[j]bringeth back the captivity of his people,
Then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

15 Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy ^[k]tabernacle?
Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
² He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness,
And speaketh truth in his heart;
^3 [l]He that slandereth not with his tongue,
Nor doeth evil to his friend,
Nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor;
⁴ In ^[m]whose eyes a reprobate is despised,
But ^[n]who honoreth them that fear Jehovah;
^[o]He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;
^5 [p]He that putteth not out his money to interest,
Nor taketh reward against the innocent.
He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

16 Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I take refuge.
² O my soul, thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art ^[q]my Lord:
I have no good beyond thee.
^3 [r]As for the saints that are in the earth,
^[s]They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.
⁴ Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for another god:
Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer,
Nor take their names upon my lips.
⁵ Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
Thou maintainest my lot.
⁶ The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places;
Yea, I have a goodly heritage.
⁷ I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel;
Yea, my ^[t]heart instructeth me in the night seasons.
⁸ I have set Jehovah always before me:
Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth:
My flesh also shall dwell ^[u]in safety.
¹⁰ For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol;
Neither wilt thou suffer thy ^[v]holy one to see ^[w]corruption.
¹¹ Thou wilt show me the path of life:
In thy presence is fulness of joy;
In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.