[For the end, a Psalm of instruction by David, when Doec the Idumean came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Abimelech.][1]Why dost thou, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in thy mischief? All the day[2]thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.[3]Thou hast loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.[4]Thou has loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.[5]Therefore may God destroy thee for ever, may he pluck thee up and utterly remove thee from thy dwelling, and thy root from the land of the living. Pause.[6]And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say,[7]Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.[8]But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.[9]I will give thanks to thee for ever, for thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before the saints.
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Author: Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)
Source: ecmarsh.com