Psalms 52

1 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

For the music director. A psalm (maskil) of David, concerning the time when Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the home of Ahimelech.” You great man, why do you boast about the evil things you've done? God's trustworthy love lasts all day long.

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

You plot to make people suffer; your words cut like a sharp razor, you liar!

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

You love evil more than good, and telling lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)

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

You love slanderous words that destroy others, you liar!

5 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)

But God will strike you down so hard you'll never get up. He will grab hold of you and drag you from your tent. He will tear you out of the land of the living. (Selah)

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

Those who do right will see all this. They will be astonished and laugh, saying,

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

“See what happens to those who don't go to God for help but instead rely on their great wealth and strength—which only brings their destruction!”

8 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.

But I'm like an olive tree growing strongly in God's house. I trust in God's unfailing love forever and ever.

9 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.

I will praise you forever, God, for all you have done. In the presence of your trustworthy people, I will place my hope in the kind of person you are, for you are good.