Psalm 11:2 - New Revised Standard Version

² for look, the wicked bend the bow, they have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, That they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For see, the wicked are bending the bow; they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they [furtively] in darkness may shoot at the upright in heart.

American Standard Version (1901)

² For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string, That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;

Common English Bible

² because the wicked have already bent their bows; they’ve already strung their arrows; they are ready to secretly shoot those whose heart is right”?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Save me, O Lord, because holiness has passed away, because truths have been diminished, before the sons of men.

Psalm 11:2 Cross References

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor— let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

Psalm 125:4

Do good, O Lord, to those who are good, and to those who are upright in their hearts.

Psalm 142:3

When my spirit is faint, you know my way. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

Psalm 21:12

For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows.

Psalm 32:11

Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart.

Psalm 37:14

The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to kill those who walk uprightly;

Psalm 64:10

Let the righteous rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in him. Let all the upright in heart glory.

Psalm 7:10

God is my shield, who saves the upright in heart.

Psalm 7:12

If one does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and strung his bow;

Psalm 94:15

for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

Psalm 97:11

Light dawns for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood, and not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.

Matthew 26:4

and they conspired to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

1 Samuel 18:21

Saul thought, “Let me give her to him that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”

1 Samuel 23:9

When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to the priest Abiathar, “Bring the ephod here.”