Psalms 11:2
1 In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
3 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
4 The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
- KJV
- For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.
- WEB
- For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
- ASV
- 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;
- DARBY
- For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the upright in heart.
- BLB
- For, behold, the wicked tread the bow; they make ready their arrow upon the string, to shoot in the darkness at those upright in heart.
- ÅB
- For se, de ugudelige spenner buen,
de legger pilen på strengen
for å skyte i mørket på de som har oppriktige hjerter. - OTB
- For se, de onde spenner buen,
De har gjort pilen klar på strengen
For å skyte i mørket mot de oppriktige av hjertet. - B1930
- For se, de ugudelige spenner buen, de legger sin pil på strengen for å skyte i mørket på de opriktige av hjertet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 64:3–5
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
Read in contextPsalms 37:14
The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:3
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 21:12
For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
Read in contextPsalms 142:3
Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
Read in contextPsalms 97:11
Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
Read in contextPsalms 10:8–9
He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
Read in context1 Samuel 18:21
“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”
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