Psalm 11:3 {10:3}
Good News Translation
There is nothing a good person can do when everything falls apart."

New Revised Standard Version
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

Contemporary English Version
What can an honest person do when everything crumbles?"

New American Bible
If foundations are destroyed, what can the just one do?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they have prepared their arrows in the quiver, to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.

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For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they have prepared their arrows in the quiver, to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.

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Psalm 75:3 The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof.

Psalm 82:5 They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

Isaiah 58:12 And the places that have been desolate for ages shall be built in thee: thou shalt raise up the foundation of generation and generation: and thou shalt be called the repairer of the fences, turning the paths into rest.

2 Timothy 2:19 But the sure foundation of God standeth firm, having this seal: the Lord knoweth who are his; and let every one depart from iniquity who nameth the name of the Lord.

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2 Kings 19:13-18 Where is the king of Emath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Ana, and of Ava? . . .

2 Kings 22:12-14 And he commanded Helcias, the priest, and Ahicam, the son of Saphan, and Achobor, the son of Micha, and Saphan, the scribe, and Asaia, the king's servant, saying: . . .

2 Chronicles 32:13-15 Know you not what I and my fathers have done to all the people of the lands? have the gods of any nations and lands been able to deliver their country out of my hand? . . .

Nehemiah 6:10-12 And I went into the house of Samaia the son of Delaia, the son of Metabeel privately. And he said: Let us consult together in the house of God in the midst of the temple: and let us shut the doors of the temple, for they will come to kill thee, and in the night they will come to slay thee. . . .

Jeremiah 26:11-15 And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying: The judgment of death is for this man: because he hath prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears. . . .

Daniel 3:15-18 Now, therefore, if you be ready, at what hour soever, you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, flute, harp, sackbut, and psaltery, and symphony, and of all kind of music, prostrate yourselves, and adore the statue which I have made: but if you do not adore, you shall be cast the same hour into the furnace of burning fire: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hand? . . .

Daniel 6:10 Now, when Daniel knew this, that is to say, that the law was made, he went into his house: and opening the windows in his upper chamber towards Jerusalem, he knelt down three times a day, and adored and gave thanks before his God, as he had been accustomed to do before.

John 11:8-10 The disciples say to him: Rabbi, the Jews but now sought to stone thee. And goest thou thither again? . . .

Acts 4:5-12,24-33 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their princes and ancients and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem. . . .

Context
In the LORD I Take Refuge
2In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow. 3For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they have prepared their arrows in the quiver, to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.4For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?…
Cross References
Psalm 82:5
They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

Psalm 87:1
For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are the holy mountains:

Psalm 119:152
I have known from the beginning concerning thy testimonies: that thou hast founded them for ever.

Isaiah 19:10
And its watery places shall be dry, all they shall mourn that made pools to take fishes.

Psalm 11:2
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