New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior? Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever?
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To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God [is] all the day.
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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Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
3 You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude
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Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.
4 You love to destroy others with your words, you liar!
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Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful 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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Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.
6 The righteous will see it and be amazed. They will laugh and say,
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And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him.
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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`Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'
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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And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,
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 thank Thee to the age, because Thou hast done [it], And I wait [on] Thy name for [it is] good before Thy saints!