When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul and said to him that David had come to the house of Ahimelech,1To the conductor: a Maskil of David. Why do you boast in distress, O mighty man? The kindness of God is all the day.2Your tongue devises desires, like a sharpened razor, working deceit.3You have loved evil rather than good, deception rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.4You have loved every word of swallowing, O deceitful tongue.5God will also tear you down forever; he will snatch you up and drag you from your tent and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.6The righteous will see and fear and laugh at him.7Behold the great man: he does not make God his security, but trusts in the abundance of his riches and grows strong in his desire.8But as for me, I am like a luxuriant olive tree in the house of God; I have trusted in the kindness of God forever and ever.9I will give thanks to you forever, because you have acted, and I will wait for your name, because it is pleasant before your pious ones.