| Holman Christian Standard Bible | Berean Study Bible |
| 1For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, "David went to Ahimelech's house." Why brag about evil, you hero! God's faithful love is constant. | 1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long. |
| 2Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery. | 2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. |
| 3You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully. Selah | 3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah |
| 4You love any words that destroy, you treacherous tongue! | 4You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue. |
| 5This is why God will bring you down forever. He will take you, ripping you out of your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah | 5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah |
| 6The righteous will look on with awe and will ridicule him:" | 6The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying, |
| 7Here is the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, taking refuge in his destructive behavior." | 7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.” |
| 8But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I trust in God's faithful love forever and ever. | 8But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever. |
| 9I will praise You forever for what You have done. In the presence of Your faithful people, I will put my hope in Your name, for it is good. | 9I will praise You forever, because You have done it. I will wait on Your name—for it is good—in the presence of Your saints. |
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