Futility of Boastful Wickedness.
For the choir director. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
1 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of Godenduresall day long.
2 Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
5 But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and tear you away fromyourtent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.
6 The righteous will see and fear,
And will laugh at him,saying,
7 “Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
Andwas strong in hisevildesire.”
8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.
9 I will give You thanks forever, because You have doneit,
And I will wait on Your name, forit isgood, in the presence of Your godly ones.
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