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1 For the end, [A Psalm] of instruction by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has gone to the house of Abimelech. Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in your mischief? All the day
2 your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have worked deceit.
3 You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.
4 You have loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue.
5 Therefore may God destroy you forever, may He pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause.
6 And the righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say,
7 Behold, the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.
8 But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God; I have trusted in the mercy of God forever, even forevermore.
9 I will give thanks to You forever, for You have done [it]; and I will wait on Your name; for [it is] good before the saints.
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