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Psalms 11:2
Psalms 11:2 is verse 2 of Psalms chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
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.
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Psalms 11:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
2 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.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
Psalms 37:14The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
Psalms 64:4ambushing the innocent in seclusion, shooting suddenly, without fear.
Jeremiah 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.
Psalms 21:12For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
Psalms 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
Psalms 10:9He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
Psalms 64:5They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
Psalms 142:3Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
1 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.”
1 Samuel 23:9When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod.”
Matthew 26:4and they conspired to arrest Jesus covertly and kill Him.
Acts 23:12When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.
Acts 23:13More than forty of them were involved in this plot.
Acts 23:14They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.
Acts 23:15Now then, you and the Sanhedrin petition the commander to bring him down to you on the pretext of examining his case more carefully. We are ready to kill him on the way.”
Psalms 7:10My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
Psalms 32:11Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, O righteous ones; shout for joy, all you upright in heart.
Psalms 64:10Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in Him; let all the upright in heart exult.
Psalms 94:15Surely judgment will again be righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
Psalms 97:11Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
Psalms 125:4Do good, O LORD, to those who are good, and to the upright in heart.