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.

In finem. Intellectus David, cum venit Doëg Idumæus, et nuntiavit Sauli: Venit David in domum Achimelech. Quid gloriaris in malitia, qui potens es in iniquitate?

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

Tota die injustitiam cogitavit lingua tua; sicut novacula acuta fecisti dolum.

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

Dilexisti malitiam super benignitatem; iniquitatem magis quam loqui æquitatem.

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

Dilexisti omnia verba præcipitationis; lingua dolosa.

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)

Propterea Deus destruet te in finem; evellet te, et emigrabit te de tabernaculo tuo, et radicem tuam de terra viventium.

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

Videbunt justi, et timebunt; et super eum ridebunt, et dicent:

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.”

Ecce homo qui non posuit Deum adjutorem suum; sed speravit in multitudine divitiarum suarum, et prævaluit in vanitate sua.

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,

Ego autem, sicut oliva fructifera in domo Dei; speravi in misericordia Dei, in æternum et in sæculum sæculi.

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!

Confitebor tibi in sæculum, quia fecisti; et exspectabo nomen tuum, quoniam bonum est in conspectu sanctorum tuorum.