For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul,
Flee {Or, ye birds}as a bird to your mountain;
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;
{Or, For the foundations are destroyed; What hath the righteous wrought?}If the foundations be destroyed,
What can the righteous do?
Jehovah is in his holy temple;
Jehovah, his throne is in heaven;
His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
Jehovah trieth the righteous;
But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Upon the wicked he will rain snares;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
For Jehovah is righteous; He loveth {Or, righteous deeds}righteousness:
{Or, His countenance doth behold the upright}The upright shall behold his face.
Querverweise zu Psalm 11,2 Ps 11,2
In the pride of the wicked {Or, he doth hotly pursue the poor}the poor {Hebrew: is set on fire.}is hotly pursued; {Or, They are taken}Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
For thou wilt make them turn their back;Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
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 {Or, hapless}helpless.
My shield is with God,Who saveth the upright in heart.
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,To cast down the poor and needy,To slay such as are upright in the way.
He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert;He lieth in wait to catch the poor:He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
Be glad in Jehovah, and rejoice, ye righteous;And shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Who have whet their tongue like a sword,And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
They encourage themselves in an evil purpose;They commune of laying snares privily;They say, Who will see them?
The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, and shall take refuge in him;And all the upright in heart shall glory.
That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect:Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
When my spirit {Or, fainted}was overwhelmed within me,Thou knewest my path.In the way wherein I walkHave they hidden a snare for me.
For judgment shall return unto righteousness;And all the upright in heart shall follow it.
And they bend their tongue, as it were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for {Or, faithfulness}truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
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 a second time.
Light is sown for the righteous,And gladness for the upright in heart.
And David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod.
Do good, O Jehovah, unto those that are good,And to them that are upright in their hearts.
and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
And they were more than forty that made this conspiracy.
And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the {Or, military tribune Greek: chiliarch}chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.