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Psalms 11:3

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

KJV

Vana locuti sunt unusquisque ad proximum suum ; labia dolosa, in corde et corde locuti sunt.

Vulgate

μάταια ἐλάλησεν ἕκαστος πρὸς τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ, χείλη δόλια ἐν καρδίᾳ καὶ ἐν καρδίᾳ ἐλάλησαν.

LXX

If the foundations be destroyed, What can the righteous do?

ASV

כִּ֣י הַ֭/שָּׁתוֹת יֵֽהָרֵס֑וּ/ן צַ֝דִּ֗יק מַה פָּעָֽל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הָ
h
noun · 2×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
נֶהֶרְס֖וּ
nhrsv
verb · 43×
פֹּ֣עֲלֵי
p'ly
verb · 55×
צַדִּ֑יק
tsdyq
adjective · 199×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 32:13 — Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
  • 2Kgs 19:13 — Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
  • 2Tim 2:19 — 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.
  • Acts 4:24 — And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:
  • Dan 3:15 — Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well:
  • Isa 58:12 — 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
  • Neh 6:10 — Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doo
  • Ps 75:3 — The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
  • Ps 82:5 — They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
  • Ps 82:5 — They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.