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.

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 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].

your tongue has devised unrighteousness; like a sharpened 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 wickedness more than goodness; unrighteousness better than to speak righteousness. (Pause)

4 You who say things [MTY] to deceive people, you like to say (things that hurt people/cruel things)!

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

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 When righteous [people] see that, they will be awestruck, and they will laugh at [what happened to] you, and say,

And the righteous shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at 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 made not God his help; but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and strengthened himself in his vanity.

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 am as a fruitful olive in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God for ever, even for evermore.

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 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.