Why Do You Boast of Evil?
(1 Samuel 22:6–23)
For the choirmaster. A Maskil 1of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? Psa 103:17Psa 107:1Psa 94:41Sa 21:7Isa 59:4Pro 6:14Gen 10:8-9Psa 137:1-2
The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
Your tongue devises destruction Pro 18:21Pro 6:16-19Pro 12:18Psa 57:4Jer 9:3-4Psa 59:72Co 11:132Co 4:2
like a sharpened razor,
O worker of deceit.
You love evil more than good, Jer 9:3-5Jhn 8:442Ti 3:4Mic 3:2Rev 22:15Jer 4:22Jer 9:8Rom 1:25
falsehood more than speaking truth.
Selah
You love every word that devours, Psa 120:3Jas 3:6-91Sa 22:18-19
O deceitful tongue.
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; Pro 2:22Psa 27:13Rev 21:8Isa 38:11Job 18:14Pro 12:19Pro 19:9Isa 22:19
He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent;
He will uproot you from the land of the living.
Selah
The righteous will see and fear; Job 22:19Psa 40:3Psa 37:34Rev 15:4Rev 18:20Isa 37:22Psa 119:120Psa 58:10-11
they will mock the evildoer, saying,
“Look at the man Jer 17:5Ecc 8:8Psa 49:6-20Psa 73:18-20Jhn 19:5Job 31:24-251Ti 6:17Hos 12:7-8
who did not make God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his wealth
and strengthened himself by destruction.”
But I am like an olive tree Psa 92:12-14Hos 14:6-8Psa 1:3Psa 13:5Jer 11:16Psa 147:11Rom 11:24Psa 128:3
flourishing in the house of God;
I trust in the loving devotion of God
forever and ever.
I will praise You forever, Lam 3:25-26Psa 130:5-6Psa 73:28Psa 54:6Pro 18:10Psa 62:5Psa 73:25-26Eph 3:20-21
because You have done it.
I will wait on Your name—
for it is good—
in the presence of Your saints.