For the choir director. A Maskil 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 in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak from on high.

They pour forth words, they speak arrogantly;
All who do wickedness vaunt themselves.

“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;
My desire shall be gratified against them;
I will draw out my sword, my hand will destroy them.’

Yet it does not so intend,
Nor does it plan so in its heart,
But rather it is its purpose to destroy
And to cut off many nations.

“Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice
And haughtily lifted up your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”

And blesseth, etc

Their

inner thought is that their houses are forever

And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.

It shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will boast, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order to destroy the watered land with the dry.’

Saul said, “May you be blessed of the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.

“If I have put my confidence in gold,
And called fine gold my trust,

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked,
But those who keep the law strive with them.

A merchant, in whose hands are false balances,
He loves to oppress.

Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no pity on them.

And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years to come; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry.”’

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Whom

“Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him;
I hid My face and was angry,
And he went on turning away, in the way of his heart.

“But your eyes and your heart
Are intent only upon your own dishonest gain,
And on shedding innocent blood
And on practicing oppression and extortion.”

“Is there yet a man in the wicked house,
Along with treasures of wickedness
And a

short measure that is cursed?

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house
To put his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of calamity!

and said, “What are you willing to give me to

betray Him to you?” And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver to him.

Then He said to them, “Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed; for not even when one has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions.”

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him.

nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to

immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

Abhorreth

You destroy those who speak falsehood;
The Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.

I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

“The Lord saw this, and spurned them

Because of the provocation of His sons and daughters.

General references

Saul said, “May you be blessed of the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.