| New Living Translation | New Living Translation |
| 1Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior? Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever? | 1Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior? Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever? |
| 2All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor; you’re an expert at telling lies. | 2All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor; you’re an expert at telling lies. |
| 3You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude | 3You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude |
| 4You love to destroy others with your words, you liar! | 4You love to destroy others with your words, you liar! |
| 5But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude | 5But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude |
| 6The righteous will see it and be amazed. They will laugh and say, | 6The righteous will see it and be amazed. They will laugh and say, |
| 7“Look what happens to mighty warriors who do not trust in God. They trust their wealth instead and grow more and more bold in their wickedness.” | 7“Look what happens to mighty warriors who do not trust in God. They trust their wealth instead and grow more and more bold in their wickedness.” |
| 8But I am like an olive tree, thriving in the house of God. I will always trust in God’s unfailing love. | 8But I am like an olive tree, thriving in the house of God. I will always trust in God’s unfailing love. |
| 9I will praise you forever, O God, for what you have done. I will trust in your good name in the presence of your faithful people. | 9I will praise you forever, O God, for what you have done. I will trust in your good name in the presence of your faithful people. |
| Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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