Psalms 52

1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

For the end, [a Psalm] of instruction by David, when Doec the Idumean came and told Saul, and said to him, David is gone to the house of Abimelech. Why do you, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in [your] mischief? All the day

2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought deceit.

3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth.

You have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. (Pause)

4 You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

You has loved all words of destruction, [and] a deceitful tongue.

5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living.

Therefore may God destroy you for ever, may he pluck you up and utterly remove you from [your] dwelling, and your root from the land of the living. (Pause)

6 The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,

And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say,

7 “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

Behold the man who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.

8 But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.

9 I will praise You forever, because You have done it. I will wait on Your name— for it is good— in the presence of Your saints.

I will give thanks to you for ever, for you have done [it]: and I will wait on your name; for [it is] good before the saints.