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Psalm 51 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷

1 UNTO the end, understanding to David,

2 When Doeg the Idumeite came and told Saul: David is come into the house of Achimelech.

3 Why doest thou glory in malice, which are mighty in iniquity?

4 All the day hath thy tongue thought injustice: as a sharp rasor thou hast done guile.

5 Thou hast loved malice more than benignity: iniquity rather than to speak equity.

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

7 Therefore will God destroy thee for ever, he will pluck thee out, & remove thee out of thy tabernacle: & thy root out of the land of the living.

8 The just shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and they shall say:

9 Behold the man, that hath not put God for his helper. But hath hoped in the multitude of his riches, and hath prevailed in his vanity.

10 But I as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever: and for ever and ever.

11 I will confess to thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will expect thy name, because it is good in the sight of thy Saints.