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1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David.
2 After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”
3 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
4 Your tongue devises destruction
like a sharpened razor,
O worker of deceit.
5 You love evil more than good,
falsehood more than speaking truth.
Selah
6 You love every word that devours,
O deceitful tongue.
7 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin;
he will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living.
Selah
8 The righteous will see and fear;
they will mock the evildoer, saying,
9 “Look at the man
who did not make God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his wealth
and strengthened himself by destruction.”
10 But I am like an olive tree
flourishing in the house of God;
I trust in the loving devotion of God
forever and ever.
11 I will praise you forever,
because you have done it.
I will wait on your name—
for it is good—
in the presence of your godly ones.