[1] Why boast about evil, you hero! God's faithful love is constant. [2] Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery. [3] You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully. Selah [4] You love any words that destroy, you treacherous tongue! [5] This is why God will bring you down forever. He will take you, ripping you out of your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah [6] The righteous will see and fear, and they will derisively say about that hero, [7] "Here is the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, taking refuge in his destructive behavior." [8] But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I trust in God's faithful love forever and ever. [9] I will praise you forever for what you have done. In the presence of your faithful people, I will put my hope in your name, for it is good.
