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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 14, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 5

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PARAPHRASE OF PSALM XI.

By John Nevins Andrews

1 I put my trust in the Lord, And on him do I firmly rely; How say ye then to my soul, As a bird to your mountain perch fly?
2 For lo! the wicked do rage, And each one doth make ready his dart; Their bow they privily bend, To let spring at the upright in heart.
3 What can the righteous effect, If, alas! the foundations be moved? Or what the godly avail, Unless justice and truth be approved?
4 But lo! God rules on his throne,— In his temple he reigneth on high; His eyes behold from afar, And the children of men he will try.
5 The Lord, the righteous doth prove,— All their actions and motives he tries; But all the wicked doth hate, And the lovers of violence despise.
6 Hot snares on them he will rain, And an horrible tempest create; In flames of brimstone and fire, He’ll assign to the wicked their fate.
7 But on the upright he looks, And beholdeth their ways from above; For God is righteous and just, And the works of the righteous doth love.
J. N. A.