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 God endures all 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.


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 from your tent,
          And uproot you from the land of the living.


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
          And was strong in his evil desire.”

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 done it,
          And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.