Interpretation of the Psalm
In the very text of the psalm, David appeals to his only and constant Defender and Comforter - the Lord God. He prays for salvation in every verse of the psalm:
- Verses 1-2 indicate that during Saul’s persecution, most of the people were hostile to David—all the high dignitaries, those close to the king, and just ordinary citizens. Among them were only “unrighteous”, i.e. undeserved and hostile sentiments towards David. The warrior weakened from the constant and widespread persecution of “no one is righteous, not even one.”
- In verses 3-5, the author says that he has not yet met sympathy for himself or has not accepted help - no one cares about his fate, or people wish him death. Around him, everyone is pretending or is in a hurry to report to the king about his whereabouts. For those close to the king, David was also dangerous, because he was extremely popular among the common people, and this could lead to rebellion, rebellion and the complete overthrow of Saul’s court. Therefore, all officials sought to help the current king destroy his rival, while feeling their impunity.
The Prophet compares the word of the Heavenly Lord to refined silver: it is precious, hard and indestructible - Verses 6-9 directly turn to the Lord for salvation. David says that only in God is salvation, that only the Almighty is the Protector of every righteous person, and only help from above is worth relying on. The promise of God helps David cope with difficulties, because he has hope of salvation and mercy.
Important! Psalm 11 perfectly shows David's true nature - no matter how difficult the circumstances may be, the threat to his life is one thing he stands firmly in - God will protect his righteous.
Psalter. Kathisma 11
KATHISMA ONE AND TEN.
Psalm 77.
Asaph's mind.
1 Hearken, my people, to my law; incline your ear to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in parables, I will proclaim the verses from the beginning. 3 I have heard and known, and our fathers have told us: 4 It was not hidden from their children throughout the generations, proclaiming the praises of the Lord and His mighty works, and His wonders that He had done. 5 And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and laid a law in Israel: “For the commandment of our fathers, that I should tell my sons, 6 that another generation shall know that they shall be born sons, and they shall arise and lead.” to their sons: 7 let them put their trust in God, and They will not forget the works of God, and they will seek His commandments. 8 Let them not be like their fathers, a generation that is obstinate and bitter, a generation that has not straightened its heart and has not trusted its spirit with God. 9 The sons of Ephraim drew bows and shot, when they returned on the day of battle: 10 They did not keep the covenant of God, neither did they desire to walk in His law. 11 And they forgot His good deeds, and His wonders, which He had shown them 12 before their fathers, that He had done wonders in the land of Egypt, in the land of Taneos. 13 Open the sea and lead them through; imagine the waters like fur. 15 And I taught by the cloud during the days and all the night with the illumination of fire. 15 He opened up the stone in the wilderness, and gave me water like the depths of the deep, 16 and brought water out of the stone, and brought down water like rivers. 17 And he added to sin again, causing Him to grieve in the abyss; 18 And having tempted God in your hearts, question the meat of your souls. 19 And slandering God, and deciding: food, will God be able to prepare a meal in the desert? 20 Thou hast struck the rock, and the waters have flowed, and the floods have come: can He give food and bread, or prepare a table for His people? 21 For this reason the Lord heard and despised: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath arose against Israel, 22 because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in His salvation. 23 And the commandments were a cloud from above, and the doors of heaven were opened, 24 and you rained down manna for them to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven. 25 The bread of the angels is eaten by man; I sent it to them until they were full. 26 He raised up the south from heaven, and brought down the foliage with His power, 27 and rained upon it like the dust of flesh, and the birds of the sea like the sand of the sea. 28 And he attacked in the middle of their camp, around their dwellings. 29 And you ate and were filled with plenty, and you brought their desire to them. 30 She was not deprived of her desire: I am still present in their mouth: 31 And the wrath of God came upon her, and killed the multitude of them, and cut off the elect of Israel. 32 In all these things you have yet sinned, and have not believed His miracles. 33 And their days perished in vanity, and their years in vain. 34 Whenever I killed, then I sought Him, and turned and prayed to God: 35 and remembered that God is their Helper, and God the Most High is their Deliverer. 36 And they loved Him with their lips, and lied to Him with their tongue: 37 But their heart was not right with Him, nor were they convinced of His covenant. 38 He is also generous, and will cleanse their sins, and will not corrupt them, and will avert His wrath, and will not kindle all His anger. 39 And I will remember, for flesh is flesh, but spirit walketh and be not turned. 40 How did you make Him angry in the desert, and provoke Him to anger in the dry land? 41 And having turned, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel, 42 and not remembering His hand on the day that I delivered him from the hand of the one who offends, 43 just as He placed His signs and wonders in Egypt. howl on the land of Taneos, 44 and turn the rivers into blood them, and their springs, so that they do not drink. 45 I sent flies and eaters among her: and frogs, and moles. 46 And you will give their fruit to rust, and their labor to waste. 47 Kill their vines with hail, and their blueberries with the glory, 48 and deliver their livestock to the hail, and their property with fire. 49 He sent upon her the wrath of His wrath, wrath and wrath and sorrow, the message of fierce angels. 50 Make the path of Your wrath, and do not spare their souls from death: and imprison their cattle in death, 51 And smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt, the first fruit of all their labor in the villages of Ham. 52 And I raised up my people like sheep, and raised up my people like a flock in the wilderness, 53 and raised up their hope, and did not fear, and their enemies covered the sea. 54 And I brought into the mountain of My holiness, this mountain, which His right hand possessed. 55 And I drove out the tongues from before them, and gave them [land] by lot by lot, and settled the tribes of Israel in their villages. 56 And you tempted and greatly grieved the Most High God, and did not keep His testimonies, 57 and turned away and rejected, as their fathers did, turning into a corrupt bow, 58 and you provoked Him to anger in your hillocks and in the persecution You have irritated Him with your own. 59 God heard and despised and despised the land of Israel, 60 and cast off the tabernacle of Shiloh, the village that dwelt among men. 61 And you delivered their strength into captivity, and their goodness into the hands of the enemies, 62 and shut up your people in weapons, and despised your property. 63 Their young men ate fire, and their virgins did not complain; 64 Their priests fell with the sword, and their widows will not be mourned. 65 And the Lord arose, as he slept, as he was strong and loud with wine, 66 and smote his enemies back; he gave them everlasting reproach. 67 And I will cast away the village of Joseph, and will not choose the tribe of Ephraim, 68 and will choose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which I will love, 69 and will make my sanctuary like a unicorn, on the earth the foundation and for ever . 70 And he chose David as his servant, and received him from the flocks of sheep. 71 From the milkmen he will feed his servant Jacob and Israel his inheritance. 72 And I kept my heart in kindness, and in understanding I directed my hand to eat.
Glory:
Psalm 78.
Psalm to Asaph.
1 O God, the Gentiles came into Your possession, desecrated Your holy temple, 2 You made Jerusalem a storehouse for vegetables, You laid up the corpse of Your servant to be eaten by the birds of the air, the flesh of the venerable Thy loved ones by the beasts of the earth. 3 You shed their blood like water around Jerusalem, and you shall not bury it. 4 This resulted in reproach from our neighbors, imitation and reproach from those around us. 5 How long, Lord, will you be angry to the end? Will your zeal kindle like fire? 6 Pour out Your wrath on tongues that do not know You, and on kingdoms that you did not call on Your name, 7 as if you had eaten Jacob and laid waste his place. 8 Do not remember our first iniquities: let Your compassions soon precede us, O Lord, for we are so poor. 9 Help us, O God, our Savior, for glory in Your name, Lord, deliver us and cleanse us from our sins in Your name. 10 Let it not be when the heathen cry, where is their God? And may the vengeance of the shed blood of Thy servant be known before our eyes. 11 Let the groaning of the chained come before You, according to the greatness of Your arm You will supply the sons of the slain. 12 Repay our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom for their reproach, who has reproached You, O Lord. 13 But we, Your people and the sheep of Your pasture, have confessed to You, O God, to forever, to generation and generation, we will proclaim Your praise.
Psalm 79.
1 Finally, about those who have changed, a testimony to Asaph, a psalm.
2 Thou who shepherd Israel, beware: Thou shalt instruct as Joseph's sheep, who sitteth upon the Cherubim, 3 appearing before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, raise up thy power, and come in a hedgehog to save us. 4 O God, turn us, and make your face shine, and we will be saved. 5 Lord God of hosts, how long are you angry at the prayer of your servant? 6 Feed us with the bread of tears, and water us with tears in measure. 7 You have made us a quarrel with our neighbors, and our imitators. 8 Lord God of hosts, brothers, make your face shine, and we will be saved. 9 You brought grapes from Egypt, you drove out the tongues, and you planted them. 10 You made a path before him, and you planted his roots, and you filled the earth. 11 The mountains are covered with its shadow, and its branches are cedars of God; 12 Its rods spread out to the sea, and its branches even to the rivers. 13 Thou hast cast down all its strongholds, and embrace all that pass by? 14 Ozoba and the boar from the oak grove, and the solitary divi devouring and. 15 O God of hosts, turn now, and look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard, 16 and complete what Thy right hand has planted, and upon the Son of man, whom Thou hast strengthened for Thyself. 17 Burnt by fire and dug up, they will perish from the rebuke of Your face. 18 Let Thy hand be upon the man of Thy right hand, and upon the Son of man whom Thou hast strengthened for Thyself, 19 And we will not depart from Thee; quicken us, and we will call upon your name. 20 Lord God of hosts, brothers, make your face shine, and we will be saved.
Psalm 80.
1 Finally, O sharpeners, a psalm to Asaph.
2 Rejoice in God our Helper, shout to the God of Jacob, 3 receive the psalm and give the tambourine, the beautiful psalter with the harp, 4 sound the trumpet in the new moon, on the blessed day of yore of your building, 5 for this is the commandment of Israel, and the destiny of the God of Jacob. 6 Place a testimony in Joseph, never having come out of the land of Egypt, whose tongue they had not heard. 7 His backbone has been taken away from his burden, his hand has been labored. 8 In tribulation you called Me, and I delivered you, having heard you in the secret storm, I tempted you on the waters of strife. 9 Hear, my people, and I testify to you, Israel, if you listen to Me. 10 You will not have a new god; you will worship a strange god. 11 For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee forth from the land of Egypt; widen thy mouth, and I will do it. 12 And my people did not listen to my voice, and Israel did not listen to me: 13 and I sent them away according to the direction of their hearts, and they will go in their own ways. 14 If only My people had listened to Me, if Israel had walked in My way, 15 for nothing would His enemies have humbled Him, and My hand would have been laid on those who insulted them. 16 The Lord has lied to Him, and their time will endure forever. 17 And thou shalt satisfy them with the fatness of the wheat, and with the honey of the stone.
Glory:
Psalm 81.
Psalm to Asaph.
1 God is in the assembly of gods, and in the midst the gods will judge. 2 How long will you judge unrighteousness and accept the faces of sinners? 3 Judge the weak and the poor, justify the lowly and the poor. 4 Take away the poor and the wretched; deliver him from the hand of sinners. 5 Without knowing, without understanding, they walk in darkness: let all the foundations of the earth be removed. 6 Az reh: You are God, and you are all sons of the Most High. 7 But you, as men, are dying, and as one of princes you are falling. 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for Thou hast inherited in all nations.
Psalm 82.
1 Song of psalm to Asaph.
2 God, who will be like You? Don’t be silent or subdue, O God. 3 Because Your enemies have made a noise, and those who hate You have raised their heads. 4 Thy wicked will is against thy people, and thy counsel is against thy holiness. 5 Deciding: Come and I will consume from the tongue, and the name of Israel will not be remembered by anyone. 6 For having conferred together with one mind, they made a covenant upon thee: 7 the villages of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and Hagarites: 8 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, foreigners with them that dwell in Tire, 9 for and Assu. He came with them, being Lot’s son’s intercessor. 10 Let us do to them like Midian and Sisera, like Jabim in Potat Kishova. 11 It was consumed in Endor, like the dung of the earth. 12 Put down their princes, such as Oreb and Zibah, and Zebea and Zalman, all their princes, 13 who decided: Let us inherit the sanctuary of God. 14 My God, lay me down like a stake before the wind. 15 Like a fire that burns up oak groves, like a flame that burns up mountains, 16 so I was married to Your storm, and I was troubled by Your wrath. 17 Fill their faces with dishonor, and they will seek Your name, O Lord. 18 Let them be ashamed and dismayed for ever and ever, and be confounded and perish. 19 And let them know that Your name is Lord, You are the only Highest in all the earth.
Psalm 83.
1 Finally, O sharpeners, son of Kore, psalm.
2 Since Your village is beloved, O Lord of hosts! 3 My soul desires and ends for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. 4 For the bird will find itself a temple, and the turtledove a nest where it will lay its young, Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. 5 The blessed ones who live in Your house will praise You forever and ever. 6 Blessed is the man, whose defense is with You; set the ascension in your heart, 7 in the vale of tears, in the place of the hedgehog, for the one who gives the law will give a blessing. 8 They will go from strength to strength: the God of gods will appear in Zion. 9 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer, grant it, O God of Jacob. 10 O God, our protector, see and look upon the face of your Christ. 11 For it is better to have one day in Your courts than a thousand: it is good for us to dwell in the house of my God rather than for us to live in the villages of sinners. 12 For the Lord loves mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory; the Lord will not deprive the good of those who walk in kindness. 13 Lord God of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in Thee.
Psalm 84.
1 Finally, son of Korah, psalm.
2 Thou hast favored Thy land, O Lord, Thou hast returned the captivity of Jacob: 3 Thou hast forsaken the iniquity of Thy people, Thou hast covered all their sins. 4 Thou hast tamed all Thy wrath; thou hast returned from the wrath of Thy wrath. 5 Bring us back, O God of our salvation, and turn away Your wrath from us. 6 Are you angry with us forever? Or will You spread Your wrath from generation to generation? 7 O God, You will return to revive us, and Your people will rejoice in You. 8 Show us, O Lord, Your mercy, and give us Your salvation. 9 I will hear what the Lord God speaks about me: for He speaks peace against His people, and against His saints, and against those who turn their hearts to Him. 10 Moreover, His salvation is near to those who fear Him, to bring glory to our land. 11 Mercy and truth were met, righteousness and peace were embraced. 12 Truth has risen from the earth, and righteousness from heaven, 13 for the Lord will give goodness, and our land will yield its fruit. 14 Righteousness will go before Him and set its feet in the way.
Glory:
According to the 11th kathisma, the Trisagion of Our Father: Also troparia, tone 7:
Having, my soul, the medicine of repentance, approach with tears, crying out with sighs: I am a healer of soul and body, free me, Lover of mankind, from many sins, number me with the harlot, and the thief, and the tax collector, and grant me, O God, forgiveness of my iniquities, and save me.
Glory: I was not jealous of the publican’s repentance, and the harlot’s tears were not acquired: I am perplexed by my blindness about such correction, but by Your compassion save me, O Christ God, as a Lover of mankind.
And now: Mother of God, the Undefiled Virgin, pray to Your Son with the powers on high, to grant us forgiveness of sins before the end and great mercy.
Lord, have mercy (40) and prayer:
Shine in our hearts, O Lord of humanity, the imperishable light of Your knowledge of God, and open our mental eyes, understanding in Your gospel sermons, put fear in us and Your blessed commandments, yes All carnal lusts have gone away, let us pass through spiritual life, all that is to please You both wise and active. For You are the enlightenment of our souls and bodies, O Christ God, and we ascribe glory to You, with Your Beginningless Father and Your All-Holy, and Good, and Life-giving Spirit, now and ever, and to the ages of ages. oh, amen.
