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when Doeg the Edomite entered and reported to Saul, saying to him: “David has entered the house of Ahimelech.”(A)

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Why do you glory in what is evil, you who are mighty by the mercy of God?
All day long
you are thinking up intrigues;
    your tongue is like a sharpened razor,
    you worker of deceit.(B)

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You who practice deceit,(A)
    your tongue plots destruction;(B)
    it is like a sharpened razor.(C)
You love evil(D) rather than good,
    falsehood(E) rather than speaking the truth.[a]
You love every harmful word,
    you deceitful tongue!(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verse 5.