| International Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Why do you make evil the foundation of your boasting, mighty one? God's gracious love never ceases. | 1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long. |
| 2Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery. | 2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. |
| 3You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude | 3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah |
| 4You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue! | 4You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue. |
| 5But God will tear you down forever; he will take you away, even snatching you out of your tent! He will uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude | 5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah |
| 6The righteous will fear when they see this, but then they will laugh at him, saying, | 6The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying, |
| 7"Look, here is a young man who refused to make God his strength; instead, he trusted in his great wealth and made his wickedness his strength. | 7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.” |
| 8But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the gracious love of God forever and ever. | 8But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever. |
| 9Therefore I will praise you forever because of what you did; I will proclaim that your name is good in the midst of your faithful ones. | 9I will praise You forever, because You have done it. I will wait on Your name—for it is good—in the presence of Your saints. |
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