Psalm 11
Brenton Septuagint Translation
Chapter overview
Psalm 11 rejects panic when social foundations seem ruined. The psalmist remains in refuge, trusting that human conduct is tested and that upright justice ultimately faces down violence and deceit.
RefugeCourageJusticeTesting
1For the end, a Psalm of David, upon the eighth.
2Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.
3Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.
4Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words:
5who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?
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.
7The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
8Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us, and shalt preserve us, from this generation, and for ever.
9The ungodly walk around: according to thy greatness thou hast greatly exalted the sons of men.
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