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.  *