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11 ‎[1] **For the chief musician, by David. In the Lord I take refuge. How can you say to me: Wander away, bird, to your mountain? **How can you speak to me so harshly, with words that seem to say: Take off, bird, fly to the hills, get away from here?
‎[2] The world is full of menace: **For behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fixed their arrow on the string to shoot, in darkness,** when they cannot be detected, **at the upright of heart, **whom they intend to kill.
‎[3] **If the **moral and societal** foundations** of the world **are destroyed, what can the righteous man do? **When the moral foundations of society are in ruins, what good can possibly come of the individual deeds of a righteous person?
‎[4] And yet, there are grounds for a different kind of contemplation, one imbued with faith and hope: **The Lord is in His Holy Temple. **He has not abandoned His earthly abode.** The Lord’s throne is in heaven, **and He rules over the world. **His eyes behold **all that occurs on earth;** He puts His gaze on the sons of man. **
‎[5] **The Lord attends to the righteous, but He hates the wicked and the lover of violence. **
‎[6] **He will rain burning coal upon the wicked; fire and brimstone and windstorm will be their lot. **
‎[7] **For the Lord is righteous and He **therefore **loves righteousness. Their faces, **the faces of the virtuous,** will behold the Upright One. **
Version: The Steinsaltz Tanakh - English
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