For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.”
1Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man?
God’s loving kindness endures continually.
2Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
3You love evil more than good,
lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
4You love all devouring words,
you deceitful tongue.
5God will likewise destroy you forever.
He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent,
and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
6The righteous also will see it, and fear,
and laugh at him, saying,
7“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
8But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house.
I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
9I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it.
I will hope in Your name, for it is good,
in the presence of Your saints.
1In finem. Intellectus David, 2cum venit Doëg Idumæus, et nuntiavit Sauli: Venit David in domum Achimelech.
3Quid gloriaris in malitia, qui potens es in iniquitate? 4Tota die injustitiam cogitavit lingua tua; sicut novacula acuta fecisti dolum. 5Dilexisti malitiam super benignitatem; iniquitatem magis quam loqui æquitatem. 6Dilexisti omnia verba præcipitationis; lingua dolosa. 7Propterea Deus destruet te in finem; evellet te, et emigrabit te de tabernaculo tuo, et radicem tuam de terra viventium. 8Videbunt justi, et timebunt; et super eum ridebunt, et dicent: 9Ecce homo qui non posuit Deum adjutorem suum; sed speravit in multitudine divitiarum suarum, et prævaluit in vanitate sua. 10Ego autem, sicut oliva fructifera in domo Dei; speravi in misericordia Dei, in æternum et in sæculum sæculi. 11Confitebor tibi in sæculum, quia fecisti; et exspectabo nomen tuum, quoniam bonum est in conspectu sanctorum tuorum.