Psaumes 11

Louis Segond 1910 (LSG) · Français

1 Au chef des chantres. De David. C’est en l’Éternel que je cherche un refuge. Comment pouvez-vous me dire : Fuis dans vos montagnes, comme un oiseau ? 2 Car voici, les méchants bandent l’arc, Ils ajustent leur flèche sur la corde, Pour tirer dans l’ombre sur ceux dont le cœur est droit. 3 Quand les fondements sont renversés, Le juste, que ferait-il ? - 4 L’Éternel est dans son saint temple, L’Éternel a son trône dans les cieux ; Ses yeux regardent, Ses paupières sondent les fils de l’homme. 5 L’Éternel sonde le juste ; Il hait le méchant et celui qui se plaît à la violence. 6 Il fait pleuvoir sur les méchants Des charbons, du feu et du soufre ; Un vent brûlant, c’est le calice qu’ils ont en partage. 7 Car l’Éternel est juste, il aime la justice ; Les hommes droits contemplent sa face.

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Psaumes 11:1

PSALM 11

Psa 11:1-7. On title, see Introduction. Alluding to some event in his history, as in 1Sa 23:13, the Psalmist avows his confidence in God, when admonished to flee from his raging persecutors, whose destruction of the usual foundations of safety rendered all his efforts useless. The grounds of his confidence are God's supreme dominion, His watchful care of His people, His hatred to the wicked and judgments on them, and His love for righteousness and the righteous.

1. my soul--me (Psa 3:2).

Flee--literally, "flee ye"; that is, he and his companion.

as a bird to your mountain--having as such no safety but in flight (compare 1Sa 26:20; La 3:52).

Psaumes 11:2

2. privily--literally, "in darkness," treacherously.

Psaumes 11:3

3. Literally, "The foundations (that is, of good order and law) will be destroyed, what has the righteous done (to sustain them)?" All his efforts have failed.

Psaumes 11:4

4. temple ... heaven--The connection seems to denote God's heavenly residence; the term used is taken from the place of His visible earthly abode (Psa 2:6; 3:4; 5:7). Thence He inspects men with close scrutiny.

Psaumes 11:5

5. The trial of the righteous results in their approval, as it is contrasted with God's hatred to the wicked.

Psaumes 11:7

7. his countenance--literally, "their faces," a use of the plural applied to God, as in Ge 1:26; 3:22; 11:7; Is 6:8, &c., denoting the fulness of His perfections, or more probably originating in a reference to the trinity of persons. "Faces" is used as "eyes" (Psa 11:4), expressing here God's complacency towards the upright (compare Psa 34:15, 16).

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