The LORD a Refuge and Defense.
For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
In the LORD I atake refuge;How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your bmountain;Ps 2:12Ps 121:12 For, behold, the wicked abend the bow,They 1bmake ready their arrow upon the stringTo cshoot in darkness at the upright in heart.Or fixedPs 7:12; 37:14Ps 64:3Ps 64:43 “If the afoundations are destroyed,What can the righteous do?”Ps 82:5; 87:1; 119:152
4 The LORD is in His aholy temple; the 1LORD’S bthrone is in heaven;His ceyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.Lit LORD, His thronePs 18:6; Mic 1:2; Hab 2:20Ps 103:19; Is 66:1; Matt 5:34; Rev 4:2Ps 33:18; 34:15, 165 The LORD atests the righteous and bthe wicked,And the one who loves violence His soul hates.Gen 22:1; Ps 34:19; James 1:12Ps 5:56 Upon the wicked He will arain 1snares;bFire and brimstone and cburning wind will be the portion of dtheir cup.Or coals of firePs 18:13, 14Gen 19:24; Ezek 38:22Jer 4:11, 12Ps 75:87 For the LORD is arighteous, bHe loves 1righteousness;The upright will cbehold His face.Or righteous deedsPs 7:9, 11Ps 33:5; 45:7Ps 16:11; 17:15