Psalms 11:1
For the end, a Psalm of David, upon the eighth. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In the LORD put I my trust: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:38And Jonathan cried out after his boy, saying, Make all speed, and stay not. And Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows, and brought the arrows to his master.
1 Samuel 22:3And David departed thence to Mizpah of Moab, and said to the king of Moab, Let, I pray thee, my father and my mother be with thee, until I know what God will do to me.
1 Samuel 27:1And David said in his heart, Now shall I be one day delivered for death into the hands of Saul; and there is no good thing for me unless I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul should cease from seeking me through every coast of Israel: so I shall escape out of his hand.
2 Chronicles 16:8Were not the Ethiopians and Libyans a great force, in courage, in horsemen, in great numbers? and did not He deliver them into thy hands, because thou trustedst in the Lord?
Psalms 7:1A Psalm of David, which he sang to the Lord because of the words of Cush the Benjaminite. 1
Psalms 9:10The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor, 1 A seasonable help, in affliction. 1
Matthew Henry on Psalms 11:1
In this psalm we have David's struggle with and triumph over a strong temptation to distrust God and betake himself to indirect means for his own safety in a time of danger. It is supposed to have been penned when he began to feel the resentments of Saul's envy, and had had the javelin thrown at him once and again. He was then advised to run his country. "No," says he, "I trust in God, and therefore will keep my ground." Observe, I. How he represents the temptation, and perhaps parleys with it, ver. 1-3 . II. How… Read the whole commentary →