Psalms 51:1-10

¹For the end, a Psalm of instruction by David,

²when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Ahimelech.

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

⁴thy tongue has devised unrighteousness; Like a sharpened razor thou hast wrought deceit.

⁵Thou hast loved wickedness more than goodness; Unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause.

⁶Thou hast loved all words of destruction, And a deceitful tongue.

⁷Therefore 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.

⁸And the righteous shall see, and fear, And shall laugh at him, and say,

⁹Behold the man who made not God his help; But trusted in the abundance of his wealth, And strengthened himself in his vanity.

¹⁰But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God Forever, even for evermore.