Passage Research
Psalm 11 — Sermon Preparation
When foundations are crumbling and friends urge flight, David refuses and trusts in the LORD who examines the righteous and hates violence. Below is a research summary for Psalm 11, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- classic sermon excerpts
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Psalm 11 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| צַדִּיק | tsaddîyq | H6662 | 3 | just |
| רָשָׁע | râshâʻ | H7563 | 3 | wrong, bad |
| בָּחַן | bâchan | H974 | 2 | test, investigate |
| חָזָה | châzâh | H2372 | 2 | gaze, perceive |
| יָשָׁר | yâshâr | H3477 | 2 | straight |
| אָהַב | ʼâhab | H157 | 2 | have affection |
| נֶפֶשׁ | nephesh | H5315 | 2 | breathing creature, animal |
How preachers through history handled this text
5 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 11, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“In this psalm we have David's struggle with and triumph over a strong temptation to distrust God and betake himself to indirect means for his own safety in a time of danger. It is supposed to have been penned when he began to feel the resentments of Saul's envy, and had had the javelin thrown at him once and again. He was then advised to run his country. "No," says he, "I trust in God, and therefore will keep my ground." Observe, I. How he represents the temptation, and perhaps parleys with it, ver. 1-3. II. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 11:1–30 (Public Domain)
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