1For the leader. A Maskil of David.
2When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him: David has come to the house of Ahimelech.
3Why do you boast in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God is all the day.
4Destructions your tongue devises, like a sharpened razor, working deceit.
5You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking righteousness. Selah.
6You love all devouring words, the deceitful tongue.
7God also will break you down forever; he will snatch you and tear you from the tent (ohel), and root you out from the land of the living (chai). Selah.
8And the righteous shall see and fear, and at him they shall laugh:
9Behold the man who did not make God his stronghold, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and took strength in his destruction.
10But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the kindness of God forever and ever.
11I will praise you forever, for you have done it; and I will wait for your name, for it is good, before your faithful ones.