Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 Why do you boast, great one, of your evil? God's faithfulness is eternal.
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To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech." Why do you boast, O mighty man, of mischief done against the godly? All the day
2 You make plans to ruin others; your tongue is like a sharp razor. You are always inventing lies.
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you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
3 You love evil more than good and falsehood more than truth.
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You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. [Selah]
4 You love to hurt people with your words, you liar!
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You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
5 So God will ruin you forever; he will take hold of you and snatch you from your home; he will remove you from the world of the living.
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But God will break you down for ever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. [Selah]
6 Righteous people will see this and be afraid; then they will laugh at you and say,
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The righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,
7 "Look, here is someone who did not depend on God for safety, but trusted instead in great wealth and looked for security in being wicked."
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"See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and sought refuge in his wealth!"
8 But I am like an olive tree growing in the house of God; I trust in his constant love forever and ever.
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But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever.
9 I will always thank you, God, for what you have done; in the presence of your people I will proclaim that you are good.
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I will thank thee for ever, because thou hast done it. I will proclaim thy name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.