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This is a song that David wrote for the music leader.

Trust the Lord to keep you safe

11 I have run to the Lord to keep me safe.
So do not say this to me:
    ‘Fly away like a bird to the hills![a]
See what the wicked people are doing!
They are preparing their bows and arrows.
They are hiding in dark places,
    to shoot their arrows at good, honest people.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:1 David's friends are telling him to run away from his enemies. But David is trusting God to keep him safe.

Psalm 11

For the director of music. Of David.

In the Lord I take refuge.(A)
    How then can you say to me:
    “Flee(B) like a bird to your mountain.(C)
For look, the wicked bend their bows;(D)
    they set their arrows(E) against the strings
to shoot from the shadows(F)
    at the upright in heart.(G)

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