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Futility of Boastful Wickedness.
For the choir director. A APossibly Contemplative, or Didactic, or Skillful PsalmMaskil of David, B1 Sam 22:9when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
1 Why do you APs 94:4boast in evil, O mighty man?
The BPs 52:8lovingkindness of God endures all day long.
2 Your tongue devises APs 5:9destruction,
Like a BPs 57:4; 59:7sharp razor, CPs 101:7O worker of deceit.
3 You APs 36:4love evil more than good,
BPs 58:3; Jer 9:5Falsehood more than speaking what is right. 1Selah may mean: Pause, Crescendo or Musical interludeSelah.
4 You love all words that devour,
O APs 120:3deceitful tongue.
5 1Or AlsoBut God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and AIs 22:18, 19tear you away from your tent,
And BProv 2:22uproot you from the CPs 27:13land of the living. Selah.
6 The righteous will APs 37:34; 40:3see and fear,
And will BJob 22:19laugh at him, saying,
7 “Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But APs 49:6trusted in the abundance of his riches
8 But as for me, I am like a APs 92:12; 128:3; Jer 11:16green olive tree in the house of God;
I BPs 13:5trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.
And I will wait on Your name, BPs 54:6for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.