^1aTo the choirmaster.↑

An Instructive Psalm of David, ^1bwhen Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul and said to him, “David has gone to Ahimelech's house.”

^1cHow you boast in wickedness, O mighty man,

Whilst the kindness of God is present all day long.

²Your tongue devises calamitous things

– As a sharpened razor perpetrating deceit.

³You have loved evil more than good,

And falsehood more than speaking righteousness.

Selah.

⁴You have loved all kinds of predatory words,

You deceitful tongue.

⁵God for his part will tear you down for perpetuity;

He will take hold of you

And sweep you away from your tent

And root you out of the land of the living.

Selah.

⁶And the righteous will look on and fear

And laugh at him.

⁷Behold the man who does not make God his stronghold,

But trusts in the abundance of his wealth

And is strong in his calamitous way!

⁸But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God;

I have trusted in the kindness of God

Age-abidingly and in perpetuity.

⁹I will praise you age-abidingly,

For you have taken action,

And I will put hope in your name,

For you are good towards those under your grace.