| International Standard Version | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Why do you make evil the foundation of your boasting, mighty one? God's gracious love never ceases. | 1For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, "David went to Ahimelech's house." Why brag about evil, you hero! God's faithful love is constant. |
| 2Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery. | 2Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery. |
| 3You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude | 3You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully. Selah |
| 4You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue! | 4You love any words that destroy, you treacherous 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 | 5This 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 |
| 6The righteous will fear when they see this, but then they will laugh at him, saying, | 6The righteous will look on with awe and will ridicule him:" |
| 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. | 7Here is the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, taking refuge in his destructive behavior." |
| 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 a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I trust in God's faithful love 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 for what You have done. In the presence of Your faithful people, I will put my hope in Your name, for it is good. |
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