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| [1]To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God [is] all the day. |
[1]The title of the two and fiftithe salm. To the ouercomer bi the quere, the lernyng of Dauid. The vnwise man seide in his herte; God is not. |
| [2]Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit. |
[2]Thei ben `corrupt, and maad abhomynable in her wickidnessis; noon is that doith good. |
| [3]Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah. |
[3]God bihelde fro heuene on the sones of men; that he se, if `ony is vndurstondynge, ether sekynge God. |
| [4]Thou hast loved all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. |
[4]Alle boweden awei, thei ben maad vnprofitable togidre; noon is that doith good, ther is not til to oon. |
| [5]Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah. |
[5]Whether alle men, that worchen wickidnesse, schulen not wite; whiche deuouren my puple as the mete of breed? |
| [6]And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him. |
[6]Thei clepiden not God; there thei trembliden for drede, where no drede was. For God hath scaterid the boones of hem, that plesen men; thei ben schent, for God hath forsake hem. |
| [7]`Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.' |
[7]Who schal yyue fro Syon helthe to Israel? whanne the Lord hath turned the caitifte of his puple, Jacob schal `ful out make ioie, and Israel schal be glad. |
| [8]And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever, |
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| [9]I thank Thee to the age, because Thou hast done [it], And I wait [on] Thy name for [it is] good before Thy saints! |
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