For the director of music. A maskil of David.
When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him:
"David had gone to the house of Abimelech."
1
Why fo you boast of evil, you mighty man?
Why do you boast all day long, you whoare disgrace in the eyes of God?
2
Your tongue plots destruction;
it is like a sharpened razor, you who practice deceit.
3
You have evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth. Selah
4
You love every harmful word, O you deceitful tongue!
5
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:
he will snatch you up and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
6
The righteous will see and fear; they will laugh at him, saying,
7
"Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold
but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!"
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But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God;
I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever.
9
I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope,
for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints.
