For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”Why brag about evil, you hero!
God’s faithful love is constant.

They mock, and they speak maliciously;
they arrogantly threaten oppression.

They pour out arrogant words;
all the evildoers boast.

The enemy said:
“I will pursue, I will overtake,
I will divide the spoil.
My desire will be gratified at their expense.
I will draw my sword;
my hand will destroy them.”

But this is not what he intends;
this is not what he plans.
It is his intent to destroy
and to cut off many nations.

Who is it you have mocked and blasphemed?
Who have you raised your voice against
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One of Israel!

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

And blesseth, etc

Their graves are their eternal homes,
their homes from generation to generation,
though they have named estates after themselves.

When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.

“May you be blessed by the Lord,” replied Saul, “for you have taken pity on me.

If I placed my confidence in gold
or called fine gold my trust,

Those who reject the law praise the wicked,
but those who keep the law battle against them.

A merchant loves to extort
with dishonest scales in his hands.

Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say: Praise the Lord because I have become rich! Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.

Then I’ll say to myself, “You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Do not love the world or the things that belong to the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

Whom

Because of his sinful greed I was angry,
so I struck him; I was angry and hid;
but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.

But you have eyes and a heart for nothing
except your own dishonest profit,
shedding innocent blood
and committing extortion and oppression.

Are there still the treasures of wickedness
and the accursed short measure
in the house of the wicked?

Woe to him who dishonestly makes
wealth for his house
to place his nest on high,
to escape from the reach of disaster!

and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” So they weighed out 30 pieces of silver for him.

He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

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

no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.

For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Abhorreth

You destroy those who tell lies;
the Lord abhors a man of bloodshed and treachery.

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.

When the Lord saw this, He despised them,
provoked to anger by His sons and daughters.

General references

“May you be blessed by the Lord,” replied Saul, “for you have taken pity on me.