Psalms 52

1 Unto the end. The understanding of David. When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity?

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 All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.

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

3 You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.

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

4 You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.

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

5 Because of this, God will destroy you in the end. He will pull you up, and he will remove you from your tabernacle and your root 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 just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:

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

7 “Behold the man who did not set God as his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, and so he prevailed in his emptiness.”

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, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and 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 confess to you forever, because you have accomplished it. And I will wait on your name, for it is good in the sight 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.