For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.”
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? Psa 103:17Psa 107:1Psa 94:41Sa 21:7Isa 59:4Pro 6:14Gen 10:8-9Psa 137:1-2
God’s loving kindness endures continually.
Your tongue plots destruction, Pro 18:21Pro 6:16-19Pro 12:18Psa 57:4Jer 9:3-4Psa 59:72Co 11:132Co 4:2
like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
You love evil more than good, Jer 9:3-5Jhn 8:442Ti 3:4Mic 3:2Rev 22:15Jer 4:22Jer 9:8Rom 1:25
lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
You love all devouring words, Psa 120:3Jas 3:6-91Sa 22:18-19
you deceitful tongue.
God will likewise destroy you forever. Pro 2:22Psa 27:13Rev 21:8Isa 38:11Job 18:14Pro 12:19Pro 19:9Isa 22:19
He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent,
and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
The righteous also will see it, and fear, Job 22:19Psa 40:3Psa 37:34Rev 15:4Rev 18:20Isa 37:22Psa 119:120Psa 58:10-11
and laugh at him, saying,
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, Jer 17:5Ecc 8:8Psa 49:6-20Psa 73:18-20Jhn 19:5Job 31:24-251Ti 6:17Hos 12:7-8
but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. Psa 92:12-14Hos 14:6-8Psa 1:3Psa 13:5Jer 11:16Psa 147:11Rom 11:24Psa 128:3
I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. Lam 3:25-26Psa 130:5-6Psa 73:28Psa 54:6Pro 18:10Psa 62:5Psa 73:25-26Eph 3:20-21
I will hope in your name, for it is good,
in the presence of your saints.