Psalm 11

This is a note for the worship leader: This is a psalm of David. I trust that God will protect me. So do not say to me, “You need to escape to the mountains like birds do, 2 because wicked people have hidden in the darkness. They have pulled back their bowstrings and aimed their arrows to shoot them at godly people {like you}. \* 3 When people are not punished for doing wrong things, there is nothing righteous people can do.” 4 But God is in his holy sanctuary, he reigns from heaven, and he watches and examines {everything that} people do. \* 5 God examines what righteous people do and what wicked people do, and he hates those who love to do violent things. 6 May he send down from the sky traps upon the wicked, and may God punish them with fire and burning sulfur and scorching hot winds. 7 God is completely righteous, and he loves when people do what is righteous. People who do what is right will be able to come into his presence. \*