Psalm 5252PsalmsBook 2Catholic Public Domain Version

Catholic Public Domain VersionBerean Standard Bible

1. Why Do You Boast of Evil?

   (1 Samuel 22:6–23)

2. 1CPDVUnto the end. The understanding of David. When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity?BSBBSB: For the choirmaster. A Maskil of 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? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
3. 2CPDVAll day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.BSBBSB: Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
4. 3CPDVYou have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.BSBBSB: You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
5. 4CPDVYou have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.BSBBSB: You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
6. 5CPDVBecause of this, God will destroy you in the end. He will pull you up, and he will remove you from your tabernacle and your root from the land of the living.BSBBSB: Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
7. 6CPDVThe just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:BSBBSB: The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,
8. 7CPDV“Behold the man who did not set God as his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, and so he prevailed in his emptiness.”BSBBSB: “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
9. 8CPDVBut I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.BSBBSB: But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
10. 9CPDVI will confess to you forever, because you have accomplished it. And I will wait on your name, for it is good in the sight of your saints.BSBBSB: I will praise You forever, because You have done it. I will wait on Your name—for it is good—in the presence of Your saints.

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