1 Why do you glory in evil, you mighty man? The steadfast love of God lasts all day long.
2 Your tongue devises ruin; it is like a whetted razor, you who practice deceit.
3 You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking what is right. Selah.
4 You love every word that swallows up, you tongue of deceit.
5 So God will tear you down for good; he will seize you and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
6 The righteous will see it and be afraid, and they will laugh at him, saying:
7 "Here is the man who did not make God his refuge, but relied on his great wealth and made himself strong in his destruction."
8 But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I trust in God's steadfast love for ever and ever.
9 I will give you thanks forever for what you have done; I will wait for your name, for it is good, before your godly ones.