① 1* 2* 3Why boast of your wickedness, strong man? Why boast all day long
4that you are plotting crimes?
Your tongue is like a sharp razor; 5you love evil more than good, and falsehood more than truth. 6You love words that inflict harm, O you deceitful tongue!
7But God will bring you down forever; he will snatch you, tear you away from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.
8The good will know fear at the sight; they will say concerning his fate:
9“See the one who would not rely on God, but trusted in riches and drew strength from wickedness.”
10But I am as a green olive tree that thrives in the house of God: I trust in God’s unfailing love for ever and ever.
11I will praise you forever for all you have done, and proclaim your good name be fore the faithful ones.
- The psalmist asks God to do justice against an oppressor. The fall of an unjust system is a judgment of God, but we know that it is not only a question of a group of good people confronting a wicked group.
