Psalms 52

1 TO THE OVERSEER. AN INSTRUCTION OF DAVID, IN THE COMING IN OF DOEG THE EDOMITE, AND HE DECLARES TO SAUL AND SAYS TO HIM, “DAVID CAME TO THE HOUSE OF AHIMELECH.” Why do you boast in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God [is] all the day.

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 Your tongue devises mischiefs, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

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

3 You have loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. (Selah)

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

4 You have loved all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.

5 Also—God breaks you down forever, Takes you, and pulls you out of the tent, And He has uprooted 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 And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him.

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

7 “Behold, the man who does not make God his strong place, And trusts in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.”

“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 And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, For all time and forever,

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 thank You for all time, because You have done [it], And I 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.