Psalms 51
1Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in your mischief? All the day 1
2your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit. 1
3You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. Pause. 1
4You have loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue. 1
5Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from your dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. Pause. 1
6And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say, 1
7Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity. 1
8But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore. 1
9I will give thanks to you for ever, for you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before the saints.