{To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God abideth continually.

They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:

How long shall they utter and speak insolence all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my soul shall be sated upon them; I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.

But he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; for it is in his heart to extirpate and cut off nations not a few.

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.

Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,

And blesseth, etc

Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever,their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.

and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.

And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have compassion upon me.

If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!

They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.

He is a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.

whose possessors slay them without being held guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah! for I am become rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

Whom

For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on backslidingly in the way of his heart.

But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.

Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure which is abominable?

Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil!

and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.

And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for it is not because a man is in abundance that his life is in his possessions.

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.

Abhorreth

Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth a man of blood and deceit.

And I will lay waste your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters.

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And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have compassion upon me.