Psalm 11:title–12:8

Yahweh Is in His Holy Temple

For the choir director. Of David.

¹In Yahweh I ^atake refuge;

How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your ^bmountain;

²For, behold, the wicked ^abend the bow,

They ^1bmake ready their arrow upon the string

To ^cshoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

³“If the ^afoundations are destroyed,

What can the righteous do?”

⁴Yahweh is in His ^aholy temple; ¹Yahweh’s ^bthrone is in heaven;

His ^ceyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.

⁵Yahweh ^atests the righteous,

But ^bthe wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.

⁶May He ^arain ¹snares upon the wicked;

^bFire and brimstone and ^cburning wind will be the portion of ^dtheir cup.

⁷For Yahweh is ^arighteous, ^bHe loves ¹righteousness;

The upright will ^cbehold His face.

PSALM 12

Yahweh Will Set the Needy in Safety

For the choir director. According to the ^†Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

¹Save, O Yahweh, for ^athe holy man ceases to be,

For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

²They ^aspeak worthlessness to one another;

With a ^bflattering lip and with a double heart they speak.

³May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,

The tongue that ^aspeaks great things;

⁴Who ^ahave said, “With our tongue we will prevail;

Our lips are ¹our own; who is lord over us?”

⁵“Because of the ^adevastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,

Now ^bI will arise,” says Yahweh; “I will ^cset him in the ¹safety for which he ²longs.”

⁶The ^awords of Yahweh are pure words;

As silver ^btried in a furnace on the ground, refined seven times.

⁷You, O Yahweh, will keep them;

You will ^aguard him from this generation forever.

⁸The ^awicked strut about on every side

When ^1bvileness is exalted among the sons of men.