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Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth.

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.

لإِمامِ الغِناء. تعليم. لِداود

عِندَما جاءَ دوئيجُ الأَدومِيُّ وأَخبَرَ شاوُلَ وقالَ له: «قد أَتى داودُ إِلى بَيتِ أَحيمَلِك»

لِمَ تَفتَخِرُ بِالشَّرِّ يا جَبَّارَ العار والنَّهارَ كُلَّه

تُضمِرُ الدَّمار؟ لِسانُكَ كالموسى المَسْنونة أَيُّها العامِلُ بِالخِداع

الشَّرُّ أَحَبُّ إِلَيكَ مِنَ الخَير والكَذِبُ مِنَ التَّكَلُّمِ بِالصِّدْق. سِلاه

تُحِبُّ كُلَّ كَلامٍ نَهَّاش أَيُّها اللِّسانُ الخَدَّاع

لِذا فاللهُ لِلأَبَدِ يُدَمِّرُكَ يَقْبِضُ علَيكَ ومِنَ الخَيمَةِ يَقتَلِعُكَ ومِن أَرضِ الأَحْياءِ يَستَأصِلُكَ. سِلاه

فيَرى الأَبْرارُ ويَخافون وعلَيه يَضحَكون

«هٰذا الَّذي لم يَتَّخِذِ اللهَ حِصْنًا بل على كَثرَةِ غِناهُ ٱتَّكَل وبِجَرائِمِه ٱعتَزَّ»

أَمَّا أَنا فكالزَّيتونةِ الغَضَّةِ في بَيتِ الله على رَحمَةِ اللهِ تَوَكَّلتُ مدى الدَّهرِ ولِلأَبَد

لِلأَبَدِ أَحمَدُكَ لِأَنَّكَ فَعَلتَ وأَرْجو ٱسمَكَ لِأَنَّه صالِحٌ لَدى أَصفِيائِكَ