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1. Why Do You Boast of Evil?

   (1 Samuel 22:6–23)

2. 1GNVTo him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. When Doeg the Edomite came and shewed Saul, and saide to him, Dauid is come to the house of Abimelech. Why boastest thou thy selfe in thy wickednesse, O man of power? the louing kindenesse of God indureth dayly.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. 2GNVThy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.BSBBSB: Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
4. 3GNVThou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah.BSBBSB: You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
5. 4GNVThou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!BSBBSB: You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
6. 5GNVSo shall God destroy thee for euer: he shall take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah.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. 6GNVThe righteous also shall see it, and feare, and shall laugh at him, saying,BSBBSB: The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,
8. 7GNVBeholde the man that tooke not God for his strength, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and put his strength in his malice.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. 8GNVBut I shall bee like a greene oliue tree in the house of God: for I trusted in the mercie of God for euer and euer.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. 9GNVI will alway praise thee, for that thou hast done this, and I will hope in thy Name, because it is good before thy 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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