Psalms 11:2
1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
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.
3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
4 The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children 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 whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Read in contextPsalms 37:14
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
Read in contextJeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 21:12
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Read in contextPsalms 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Read in contextPsalms 97:11
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
Read in contextPsalms 10:8–9
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Read in context1 Samuel 18:21
And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.
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