| Holman Christian Standard Bible | Christian Standard 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. | 1Why boast about evil, you hero! God's faithful love is constant. |
| 2Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery. | 2Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery. |
| 3You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully. Selah | 3You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully. Selah |
| 4You love any words that destroy, you treacherous tongue! | 4You love any words that destroy, you treacherous 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 | 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 |
| 6The righteous will look on with awe and will ridicule him:" | 6The righteous will see and fear, and they will derisively say about that hero, |
| 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"Here is the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, taking refuge in his destructive behavior." |
| 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 a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I trust in God's faithful love 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 for what you have done. In the presence of your faithful people, I will put my hope in your name, for it is good. |
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