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Psalm 11: In Domino confido

Book of Common Prayer (1979), page 596. In the 30-day Psalter it is read on day 2, at Morning Prayer.

1

In the LORD have I taken refuge; *

how then can you say to me,

"Fly away like a bird to the hilltop;

2

For see how the wicked bend the bow

and fit their arrows to the string, *

to shoot from ambush at the true of heart.

3

When the foundations are being destroyed, *

what can the righteous do?"

4

The LORD is in his holy temple; *

the LORD'S throne is in heaven.

5

His eyes behold the inhabited world; *

his piercing eye weighs our worth.

6

The LORD weighs the righteous as well as the wicked, *

but those who delight in violence he abhors.

7

Upon the wicked he shall rain coals of fire and burning sulphur; *

a scorching wind shall be their lot.

8

For the LORD is righteous;

he delights in righteous deeds; *

and the just shall see his face.

When it is appointed