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, understanding for David, When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul David went to the house of Achimelech. Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?

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

All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

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

Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.

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

Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O 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)

Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.

6 And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him.

The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at 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 that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.

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, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God for ever, yea for ever 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 praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints.