Salmos 51

1 For the end, a Psalm of instruction by David, 2 when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Ahimelech.

3 Why dost thou, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in thy mischief?

All the day 4 thy tongue has devised unrighteousness;

Like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.

5 Thou hast loved wickedness more than goodness;

Unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.

6 Thou hast loved all words of destruction,

And a deceitful tongue.

7 Therefore may God destroy thee forever,

May he pluck thee up and utterly remove thee from thy dwelling,

And thy root from the land of the living. Pause.

8 And the righteous shall see, and fear,

And shall laugh at him, and say,

9 Behold the man who made not God his help;

But trusted in the abundance of his wealth,

And strengthened himself in his vanity.

10 But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God:

I have trusted in the mercy of God

Forever, even for evermore.

11 I will give thanks to thee forever, for thou hast done it:

And I will wait on thy name;

For it is good before thy saints.