I Trust in the Lovingkindness of God

¹Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?

The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

²Your tongue devises destruction,

Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

³You love evil more than good,

Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

⁴You love all words that devour,

O deceitful tongue.

⁵¶But God will break you down forever;[#52:5 Or Also]

He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,

And uproot you from the land of the living, Selah.

⁶So that the righteous will see and fear,

And will laugh at him, saying ,

⁷“Behold, the man who would not set God as his strength,

But trusted in the abundance of his riches

And was strong in his destruction.”

⁸¶But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;

I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.

⁹I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it ,

And I will hope on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your holy ones.