Psalms 51 — LXXSB

(52) For the end, a Psalm of⁺instruction by David, when Doec the Idumean came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Abimelech.

51Verse 1Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in your mischief? All the day
^{Verse 2}your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit.
^{Verse 3}You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.
^{Verse 4}You have loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.
^{Verse 5}Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from your dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause.
^{Verse 6}And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say,
^{Verse 7}Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.
^{Verse 8}But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.
^{Verse 9}I will give thanks to you for ever, for you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before the saints.