Why Do You Boast of Evil?

(1 Samuel 22:6–23)

For the choirmaster. A Maskil[fn] 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.

2 

Your tongue devises destruction

like a sharpened razor,

O worker of deceit.

3 

You love evil more than good,

falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah

4 

You love every word that devours,

O deceitful tongue.

5 

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

6 

The righteous will see and fear;

vvv they will mock [the evildoer], saying,

7 

“Look at the man

who did not make God his refuge,

but trusted in the abundance of his wealth

[and] strengthened himself by destruction.”

8 

But I am like an olive tree

flourishing in the house of God;

I trust in the loving devotion of God

forever and ever.

9 

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.