Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man?
Why do you boast all day
long,
you who are a disgrace in
the eyes of God?
Your tongue plots
destruction;
it is like a sharpened
razor,
you who practice deceit.
You love evil rather than
good,
falsehood rather than
speaking the truth.
Selah
You love every harmful
word,
O you deceitful tongue!
Surely God will bring you
down to everlasting ruin:
he will snatch you up and
tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the
land of the living.
Selah
The righteous will see and
fear;
they will laugh at him,
saying,
“Here now is the man
who did not make God his
stronghold
but trusted in his great
wealth
and grew strong by
destroying others!”
But I am like an olive tree
flourishing in the house of
God;
I trust in God’s unfailing
love
for ever and ever.
I will praise you forever
for what you have done;
in your name I will hope,
for your name is good.
I will praise you in the presence of your saints.
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