Psalms 11:3
“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
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.
If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
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Cross-References
“They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.”
“And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.”
“Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”
“They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.”
“The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.”