Psalms 52
1 You people [think that you] are strong and brag about the sins that you have committed, while you plan to harm godly people.
Unto the end. The understanding of David. When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity?
2 All during the day you plan to get rid of [others]; what you say [MTY] [injures others] like a sharp razor [SIM], and you are [always] deceiving [others].
All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.
3 You like [doing what is] evil more than you like doing what is good, and you like telling lies more than you like telling the truth.
You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.
4 You who say things [MTY] to deceive people, you like to say (things that hurt people/cruel things)!
You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.
5 But God will get rid of you forever; he will grab you and drag you from your home and take you away from this world where people are alive.
Because of this, God will destroy you in the end. He will pull you up, and he will remove you from your tabernacle and your root from the land of the living.
6 When righteous [people] see that, they will be awestruck, and they will laugh at [what happened to] you, and say,
The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:
7 “Look [what happened to] the man who would not ask God to protect him; he trusted that his great wealth [would save him]; he trusted in the money that he got by wickedly taking it from others!”
“Behold the man who did not set God as his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, and so he prevailed in his emptiness.”
8 But I am [secure/safe because I worship] in God’s temple; I am like a [strong] green olive tree. I trust in God, who faithfully loves us forever.
But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.
9 God, I will always thank you for the things that you have done. As I stand before godly [people], I will proclaim that you are good (OR, the many good [MTY] [things you have done for us]).
I will confess to you forever, because you have accomplished it. And I will wait on your name, for it is good in the sight of your saints.
