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1In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Fleeasa bird to your mountain;

2For, 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;

3If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?

4Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

5Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

6Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

7For Jehovah is righteous; he loveth righteousness: The upright shall behold his face.

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Parallel translations · Psalms 11:1

WEB · World English Bible (2000)

In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Fleeasa bird to your mountain;

KJV · King James Version (1611)

In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

ASV · American Standard Version (1901)

In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Fleeasa bird to your mountain;

BBE · Bible in Basic English (1949)

In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?

YLT · Young's Literal Translation (1862)

To the Overseer. --By David. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul, `They moved <FI>to<Fi> Thy mountain for the bird?

DRA · Douay-Rheims (Challoner) (1752)

Unto the end: for the octave, a psalm for David.

DBY · Darby Bible (1890)

In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — verses that illuminate Psalms 11:1.

  • Psalms 7:1

    O Jehovah my God, in thee do I take refuge: Save me from all them that pursue me, and deliver me,

  • Psalms 16:1

    Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I take refuge.

  • 1 Samuel 23:14

    And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

  • Proverbs 6:5

    Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  • 1 Samuel 19:11

    And Saul sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou wilt be slain.

  • Psalms 55:6

    And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.

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"Help, Jehovah; for the godly man ceaseth; For the faithful fail from among the children of men."