Psalm 5252PsalmsBook 2unfoldingWord® Literal Text

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1. Why Do You Boast of Evil?

   (1 Samuel 22:6–23)

2. 1ULTWhy do you boast about harm, O warrior? The covenant faithfulness of God all of the day.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. 2ULTLike a sharpened razor, your tongue devises calamities, worker of betrayal!BSBBSB: Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
4. 3ULTYou love evil more than good, lying more than speaking righteousness. SelahBSBBSB: You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
5. 4ULTYou love all words of destruction, tongue of betrayal!BSBBSB: You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
6. 5ULTGod will also tear you down forever. He will take you away and tear you from the tent and uproot you from the land of the living. SelahBSBBSB: 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. 6ULTAnd the righteous will see and fear, and they will laugh at him.BSBBSB: The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,
8. 7ULT“Behold, the man did not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the abundance of his wealth; he was strong in his calamity.”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. 8ULTBut I{ am} like a green olive tree in the house of God. I will trust in the covenant faithfulness of God 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. 9ULTI will thank you forever, for you have done{ this}. I will await your name, for{ it is} good before your faithful{ ones}.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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