To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm 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 yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever.

They scoff and speak in malice of cruelty; from on high they speak.

They gush; they speak impudent things; all the workers of iniquity speak proudly.

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them, I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

Yet he does not plan this, nor does his heart think so. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off not a few nations.

Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.

Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, and we will trade and will make a profit,

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Their inward thought is that their houses shall go on forever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

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

And Saul said, Blessed are you from Jehovah, for you have pity on me.

If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust;

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law plead against them.

He is a merchant; the scales of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress.

those buying them kill them, and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and their shepherds do not pity them.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat drink and be merry.

being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, 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,

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For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry and struck him; I hid Myself, and was angry, and he went on turning away in the way of his heart.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

Are the treasures of wickedness still in the house of the wicked, and the short measure that is hateful?

Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!

And he said to them, What will you give me, and I will betray Him to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.

And He said to them, Watch and keep yourselves from covetousness. For a man's life is not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.

And being money-lovers, all the Pharisees also heard all these things. And they derided Him.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

For you know this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous one (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

But they who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which plunge men into destruction and perdition.

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You shall destroy those who speak lies; Jehovah will despise the bloody and deceitful man.

And I will destroy your high places and cut down your images, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and My soul shall despise you.

And Jehovah saw, and despised them because of the provoking of His sons and of His daughters.

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And Saul said, Blessed are you from Jehovah, for you have pity on me.