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1 For the end, a Psalm of instruction by David, 2 when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Ahimelech.
3 Why dost thou, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in thy mischief?
All the day 4 thy tongue has devised unrighteousness;
Like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.
5 Thou hast loved wickedness more than goodness;
Unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.
6 Thou hast loved all words of destruction,
And a deceitful tongue.
7 Therefore may God destroy thee forever,
May he pluck thee up and utterly remove thee from thy dwelling,
And thy root from the land of the living. Pause.
8 And the righteous shall see, and fear,
And shall laugh at him, and say,
9 Behold the man who made not God his help;
But trusted in the abundance of his wealth,
And strengthened himself in his vanity.
10 But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God:
I have trusted in the mercy of God
Forever, even for evermore.
11 I will give thanks to thee forever, for thou hast done it:
And I will wait on thy name;
For it is good before thy saints.