[For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, "David went to Ahimelech's house."] Why brag about evil, you hero! God's faithful love is constant.

You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully. Selah

They mock, and they speak maliciously; they arrogantly threaten oppression.

They set their mouths against heaven, and their tongues strut across the earth.

the king exclaimed, "Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?"

"Then the king will do whatever he wants. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will say outrageous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, because what has been decreed will be accomplished.

A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and astounded the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great.

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God's sanctuary, publicizing that he himself is God.

wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever!

to execute judgment on all, and to convict them of all their ungodly deeds that they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things ungodly sinners have said against Him.

These people are discontented grumblers, walking according to their desires; their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.

A mouth was given to him to speak boasts and blasphemies. He was also given authority to act for 42 months.

He began to speak blasphemies against God: to blaspheme His name and His dwelling-- those who dwell in heaven.

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; he had two horns like a lamb, but he sounded like a dragon.

Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

For if, having escaped the world's impurity through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.

By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

And with many other words he testified and strongly urged them, saying, "Be saved from this corrupt generation!"