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

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 has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened razor you have wrought 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 have loved wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. (Pause)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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]).