1 > Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.
2 Your tongue plots destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
3 You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
4 You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.
5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, And root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
6 The righteous also will see it, and fear, And laugh at him, saying,
7 \"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.\"
8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
9 I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, In the presence of your saints.
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Today's Verse
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Verse Of The DayGod is said to root the deceiver out of the land of the living, while the psalmist declares himself 'like a green olive tree in the house of God,' a fruitful image paralleled at Psalms 92:12-14. The psalm closes waiting on God's name before the bleak assessment of Psalms 53.
