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.

You people [think that you] are strong and brag about the sins that you have committed, while you plan to harm godly people.

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

All during the day you plan to get rid of [others]; what you say [MTY] [injures others] like a sharp razor [SIM], and you are [always] deceiving [others].

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

You like [doing what is] evil more than you like doing what is good, and you like telling lies more than you like telling the truth.

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

You who say things [MTY] to deceive people, you like to say (things that hurt people/cruel things)!

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.

But God will get rid of you forever; he will grab you and drag you from your home and take you away from this world where people are alive.

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

When righteous [people] see that, they will be awestruck, and they will laugh at [what happened to] you, 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.”

“Look [what happened to] the man who would not ask God to protect him; he trusted that his great wealth [would save him]; he trusted in the money that he got by wickedly taking it from others!”

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 [secure/safe because I worship] in God’s temple; I am like a [strong] green olive tree. I trust in God, who faithfully loves us forever.

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.

God, I will always thank you for the things that you have done. As I stand before godly [people], I will proclaim that you are good (OR, the many good [MTY] [things you have done for us]).