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Why Do You Boast of Mischief?
{To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God [abideth] continually.
{To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God [abideth] continually.
Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
You who practice deceit,
your tongue plots destruction;
it is like a sharpened razor.
your tongue plots destruction;
it is like a sharpened razor.
Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!
You love every harmful word,
you deceitful tongue!
you deceitful tongue!
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:
He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living.
He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living.
The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, [saying,]
The righteous will see and fear;
they will laugh at you, saying,
they will laugh at you, saying,
Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his avarice.
“Here now is the man
who did not make God his stronghold
but trusted in his great wealth
and grew strong by destroying others!”
who did not make God his stronghold
but trusted in his great wealth
and grew strong by destroying others!”
But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever.
But I am like an olive tree
flourishing in the house of God;
I trust in God’s unfailing love
for ever and ever.
flourishing in the house of God;
I trust in God’s unfailing love
for ever and ever.