Psalms 52

1 Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s chesed ·loving-kindness· endures continually.

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 plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

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

3 You 'ahavta ·affectionately love· evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. (Selah) ·contemplation with musical interlude·.

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

4 You 'ahavta ·affectionately love· all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

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

5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. (Selah) ·contemplation with musical interlude·.

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 The upright also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,

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

7 “Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

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

8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s chesed ·loving-kindness· forever and ever.

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 will yadah ·extend hands in thankful praise· to you forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of 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.