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1 Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior? Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever?
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Hey, powerful person! Why do you brag about evil? God's faithful love lasts all day long.
2 All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor; you’re an expert at telling lies.
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Your tongue devises destruction: it's like a sharpened razor, causing deception.
3 You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude
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You love evil more than good; you love lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
4 You love to destroy others with your words, you liar!
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You love all destructive words; you love the deceiving tongue.
5 But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude
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But God will take you down permanently; he will snatch you up, tear you out of your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living! Selah
6 The righteous will see it and be amazed. They will laugh and say,
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The righteous will see and be in awe; they will laugh at those people:
7 “Look what happens to mighty warriors who do not trust in God. They trust their wealth instead and grow more and more bold in their wickedness.”
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"Look at them! They didn't make God their refuge. Instead, they trusted in their own great wealth. They sought refuge in it—to their own destruction!"
8 But I am like an olive tree, thriving in the house of God. I will always trust in God’s unfailing love.
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But I am like a green olive tree in God's house; I trust in God's faithful love forever and always.
9 I will praise you forever, O God, for what you have done. I will trust in your good name in the presence of your faithful people.
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I will give thanks to you, God, forever, because you have acted. In the presence of your faithful people, I will hope in your name because it's so good.
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