The Steadfast Love of God Endures

^{TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A MASKIL OF DAVID, WHEN DOEG, THE EDOMITE, CAME AND TOLD SAUL, “DAVID HAS COME TO THE HOUSE OF AHIMELECH.”}

¹ Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

² Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

³ You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah

⁴ You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

⁵ But God will break you down for ever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

⁶ The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,

⁷ “ See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”

⁸ But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever.

⁹ I will thank you for ever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.