1You great man, why do you boast about the evil things you've done? God's trustworthy love lasts all day long. ¹⁵⁸

2You plot to make people suffer; your words cut like a sharp razor, you liar!

3You love evil more than good, and telling lies more than speaking the truth. Selah.

4You love slanderous words that destroy others, you liar!

5But God will strike you down so hard you'll never get up. He will grab hold of you and drag you from your tent. He will tear you out of the land of the living. Selah.

6Those who do right will see all this. They will be astonished and laugh, saying,

7“See what happens to those who don't go to God for help but instead rely on their great wealth and strength—which only brings their destruction!”

8But I'm like an olive tree growing strongly in God's house. I trust in God's unfailing love forever and ever.

9I will praise you forever, God, for all you have done. In the presence of your trustworthy people, I will place my hope in the kind of person you are, ¹⁵⁹for you are good.