Refrain: I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever.
1 Why do you glory in evil, you tyrant, ♦
while the goodness of God endures continually?
2 You plot destruction, you deceiver; ♦
your tongue is like a sharpened razor.
3 You love evil rather than good, ♦
falsehood rather than the word of truth.
4 You love all words that hurt, ♦
O you deceitful tongue.
5 Therefore God shall utterly bring you down; ♦
he shall take you and pluck you out of your tent
and root you out of the land of the living.
6 The righteous shall see this and tremble; ♦
they shall laugh you to scorn, and say:
7 ‘This is the one who did not take God for a refuge, ♦
but trusted in great riches and relied upon wickedness.’
8 But I am like a spreading olive tree in the house of God; ♦
I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever.
9 I will always give thanks to you for what you have done; ♦
I will hope in your name,
for your faithful ones delight in it.
Refrain: I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever.
Faithful and steadfast God,
nourish your people in this wicked world,
and, through prayer and the Scriptures,
give us our daily bread;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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