UST PSA Chapter 52

52 This is a note for the worship leader: wrote song Edomite King Saul told

1 Doeg, you are boasting as if you were a great warrior because you killed so many people,

but you are wrong to boast, because they were helpless.

God always protects me because he is kind to me.

2 You say things that you know will cause great harm to other people.

It is as if your tongue is a sharp knife slashing people.

People did something innocently,

but you reported it in such a way that they seemed to be guilty.

3 You like to do what is wrong more than you like to do what is right.

You like to tell lies more than you like to tell the truth. Selah

4 You like to say anything that will cause harm to people.

What you say causes innocent people to suffer.

5 But God will destroy you permanently, just as you have destroyed others.

You may feel safe in your home, but God will take you from there

and remove you from this world in which people are alive. Selah

6 When good people see that, they will respect God for being just.

They will laugh at you.

7 They will say, “Look what happened to this man who did not trust God to protect him.

He thought that because he had a lot of money, he could avoid trouble.

He believed that harming other people would make him powerful.”

8 But I am safe, just like the olive trees that the priests plant and care for in the courtyard of the place where we worship God.

I know that God will always be kind to me.

9 I am confident that you, God, are going to do what I have described,

and I will always praise you for that.

You have demonstrated to the people who are faithful to you that you are good.

So I will wait patiently for you to act according to your good character.