To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.[1]2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit. (Ps 50,19; Ps 57,4; Ps 101,7)3You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah (Jer 9,4; Jer 9,5)4You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.5But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah (Ps 27,13; Przyp 2,22)6The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying, (Ps 2,4; Ps 40,3)7“See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[2] (Ps 49,6)8But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. (Ps 1,3; Ps 37,35; Ps 92,12; Ps 92,13; Ps 128,3; Ps 144,12; Jer 11,16; Oz 14,6)9I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly. (Ps 50,5; Ps 54,6)