Psalms 52

1 to/for to conduct Maskil to/for David in/on/with to come (in): come Doeg [the] Edomite and to tell to/for Saul and to say to/for him to come (in): come David to(wards) house: household Ahimelech what? to boast: boast in/on/with distress: evil [the] mighty man kindness God all [the] day

For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

2 desire to devise: devise tongue your like/as razor to sharpen to make: do deceit

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

3 to love: lover bad: evil from good deception from to speak: speak righteousness (Selah)

You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. (Selah)

4 to love: lover all word swallowing tongue deceit

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

5 also God to tear you to/for perpetuity to snatch up you and to pull you from tent and to uproot you from land: country/planet alive (Selah)

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)

6 and to see: see righteous and to fear: revere and upon him to laugh

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

7 behold [the] great man not to set: make God security his and to trust in/on/with abundance riches his be strong in/on/with desire his

“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.”

8 and I like/as olive luxuriant in/on/with house: temple God to trust in/on/with kindness God forever: enduring and perpetuity

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

9 to give thanks you to/for forever: enduring for to make: do and to await name your for be pleasing before pious your

I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.