In today's psalms (11-16), faith, trust, hope, perseverance, and expectancy are themes that the psalmists develop:
- no matter what goes on around you, the Lord is in his holy temple, still ruling from heaven (11)
- in the face of violence to the oppressed, God promises help and hope (12)
- when your well of faith is dry, you can expect to find the goodness of God (13)
- when evil seems to overrun you, that way is shown to be futile (14), while the way of blamelessness before God is shown to bring godly reward (15)
- when we feel weak, God keeps us safe, both now and forever (16)