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For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving-kindness of God [endures] continually.

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.

Look, this is the [prominent] man that did not make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his plunder.

But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I trust in the loving-kindness of God forever and ever.

For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done disgusting iniquity; There is none that does good.

God looked down from heaven on the sons of man, To see if there were any that understood, That sought after God.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And do not call on God?

There they were in great fear, where no fear was; For God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: You have put [them] to shame, because God has rejected them.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Then Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David; when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself with us? Save me, O God, by your name, And judge me in your might.

Hear my prayer, O God; Give ear to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah.

Look, God is my helper: The Lord is of those that uphold my soul.

For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; And don't hide yourself from my supplication.

We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng.

As for me, I will call on God; And Yahweh will save me.

God will hear, and answer them, Even he that abides of old, Selah, [The men] who have no changes, And who don't fear God.

But you, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in you.

For the Chief Musician; set to The Silent Dove - Those Far Away. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful to me, O God; for common man would swallow me up: All the day long those fighting oppress me.

In God (I will praise his word), In God I have put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do to me?