The Steadfast Love of God Endures

To the choirmaster. A Maskil1 of David, when cDoeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

¹Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?

The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

²Your dtongue plots destruction,

like ea sharp razor, you fworker of deceit.

³You love evil more than good,

and glying more than speaking what is right. Selah

⁴You love all words that devour,

O deceitful tongue.

⁵But God will break you down forever;

he will snatch and htear you from your tent;

he will uproot you from ithe land of the living. Selah

⁶The righteous shall jsee and fear,

and shall klaugh at him, saying,

⁷“See the man who would not make

God his refuge,

but ltrusted in the abundance of his riches

and sought refuge in his own destruction!”2

⁸But I am like ma green olive tree

in the house of God.

I trust in the steadfast love of God

forever and ever.

⁹I will thank you forever,

because you have done it.

I will wait for your name, nfor it is good,

in the presence of the ogodly.