⁰To the choirmaster. A poem of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech."

¹Why do you boast in evil, mighty man? The loyal love of God is all the day.

²Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharpened razor, doer of deceit.

³You loved evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking righteousness. Selah.

⁴You loved all words of swallowing, O tongue of deceit.

⁵God also will tear you down for all time; he will snatch you up and pull you away from the tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

⁶The righteous will see and fear, and will laugh at him.

⁷Look at the man who did not make God his stronghold, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and grew strong in his destruction.

⁸But I am like a leafy olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the loyal love of God forever and ever.

⁹I will give thanks to you forever, for you have acted; and I will wait for your name, for it is good in the presence of your faithful ones.