Why Do You Boast of Evil?
(1 Samuel 22:6–23)

1For the one directing. A Maskil† of David, in the coming of Doeg the Edomite, when he announced to Saul and said to him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”

1 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?

The loving devotion of God is all the day.

2Your tongue devises destruction,

like a sharp razor working deceit.

3You love evil more than good,

lying more than speaking righteousness.

Selah

4You love all devouring words,

O tongue of deceit!

5Even God will tear you down forever;

He will take you up and pluck you out of the tent

and uproot you from the land of the living.

Selah

6and the righteous will see and fear,

and they shall laugh at him:

7“Behold the man

who did not set God as his refuge,

and who trusted in the abundance of his wealth,

and took strength by destruction.”

8And I am green,

like an olive tree in the house of God;

I trust in the loving devotion of God

forever and ever.

9I will confess You forever,

because You have done it.

And I will call on Your name,

for it is good before of Your holy ones.