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.

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

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

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

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

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

You has loved all words of destruction, [and] a 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 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 And the righteous see, And fear, and laugh at him.

And the righteous 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 who made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself 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 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 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 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.