Immerse: Poets Full Volume - Flipbook - Page 23
10:15–12:1
P salms
The helpless put their trust in you.
You defend the orphans.
Break the arms of these wicked, evil people!
Go after them until the last one is destroyed.
The Lord is king forever and ever!
The godless nations will vanish from the land.
Lord, you know the hopes of the helpless.
Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them.
You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed,
so mere people can no longer terrify them.
PSALM 11
For the choir director: A psalm of David.
I trust in the Lord for protection.
So why do you say to me,
“Fly like a bird to the mountains for safety!
The wicked are stringing their bows
and fitting their arrows on the bowstrings.
They shoot from the shadows
at those whose hearts are right.
The foundations of law and order have collapsed.
What can the righteous do?”
But the Lord is in his holy Temple;
the Lord still rules from heaven.
He watches everyone closely,
examining every person on earth.
The Lord examines both the righteous and the wicked.
He hates those who love violence.
He will rain down blazing coals and burning sulfur
on the wicked,
punishing them with scorching winds.
For the righteous Lord loves justice.
The virtuous will see his face.
PSALM 12
For the choir director: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by an eight-stringed
instrument.
Help, O Lord, for the godly are fast disappearing!
The faithful have vanished from the earth!
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