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1. Why do you take pride in wrong-doing, O powerful man? The loving-kindness of God lasts all day long.
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2. Your tongue makes plans to destroy like a sharp knife, you who lie.
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3. You love what is bad more than what is good, and you speak lies more than you speak the truth.
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4. You love all words that destroy, O lying tongue.
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5. But God will destroy you forever. He will pick you up and pull you away from your tent. He will pull up your roots from the land of the living.
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6. And those who are right will see and be afraid. They will laugh at him, saying,
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7. "Look, the man who would not make God his safe place, but trusted in his many riches and was strong in his sinful desire."
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8. But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.
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9. I will give You thanks forever because of what You have done. And I will hope in Your name, for it is good to be where those who belong to You are.
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