Psalms 52

1 Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually.

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?

2 The tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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

3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. (Selah)

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

4 You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.

5 God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. (Selah)

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.

6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:

7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

“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.”

8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

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.

9 I will praise you for ever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.

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.