against godly ones you plot all the day.*
2 Your tongue is destructive - a razor-sharp blade.
3 And you prefer evil and lies to the truth.
4 O tongue of deceit, you love harmful words,
5 so God will for ever tear you right down;
he'll scatter you, plucking you out of your tent;
you'll out of the land of the living be sent. [selah]
6 The righteous will see, they'll be filled with awe;
7 they'll laugh at him, say, "Here now is the one
who made not his stronghold in God, but instead,
in riches confiding, sought strength from his schemes."
8 A green olive tree in God's house I'm set;
I trust in God's love which never will fail.
9 For ever I'll praise you for what you have done;
I'll hope in your kindness with all of your saints.
For the director of music. A maskil of David. when Doeg the Edomite
had gone to Saul and told him: "David has gone to the house of Ahimelech."
Tune: Hanover (Croft)
*Line 1b could read: God's covenant love endures all the day.
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