Psalm 11 (Kathisma 2)
Read on Sunday (Sunday and Wednesday during Great Lent)
For the End: A Psalm of David for the Eighth.
(Psalm 12- Hebrew Numbering)
Save me, O Lord, for a righteous man there is no more; for truths have diminished from the sons of men.
Vain things hath each man spoken to his neighbor; deceitful lips are in his heart, and in his heart hath he spoken evils.
Let the Lord destroy all deceitful lips and the tongue that speaketh boastful words, which have said: Our tongue will we magnify, our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?
Because of the distress of the beggars and the groaning of the poor, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will establish them in salvation, I will be manifest therein.
The words of the Lord are pure words, silver that is fired, tried in the earth, brought to sevenfold purity.
Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us and shalt preserve us from this generation, and for evermore. The ungodly walk round about; to the measure of Thy loftiness hast Thou esteemed the sons of men.