1 Why do you boast of wickedness,
you tyrants in your might?
Why boast all day, O you who are
disgraceful in God’s sight?
2 How razor-sharp your deadly tongue,
what treach’ry you devise!
3 You cling to evil, hate the good,
4 and love pernicious lies.
5 But God will tear you clean away
from all the wealth you own,
from home and fam’ly, life itself,
to reap what you have sown.
6 The righteous will look on in awe,
and say: “Look at those fools!
7 They would not make God their refuge;
greed was their golden rule.”
8 But I am like an olive tree
that thrives in God’s domain,
dependent on his steadfast love
whose pow’r can never wane.
9 I will forever give you praise
for what your hand has done,
hope in your name, and with your saints
make all your goodness known.
– vv. 2-6a, 8-9 David G. Preston, alt.
Oremus 