< Psalmorum 52 >
1 Psalmus In finem, Intellectus David, Cum venit Doeg Idumaeus, et nunciavit Sauli: Venit David in domum Abimelech. Quid gloriaris in malitia, qui potens es in iniquitate?
For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
2 Tota die iniustitiam cogitavit lingua tua: sicut novacula acuta fecisti dolum.
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
3 Dilexisti malitiam super benignitatem: iniquitatem magis quam loqui aequitatem.
You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth.
4 Dilexisti omnia verba praecipitationis, lingua dolosa.
You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
5 Propterea Deus destruet te in finem, evellet te, et emigrabit te de tabernaculo tuo: et radicem tuam de terra viventium.
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living.
6 Videbunt iusti, et timebunt, et super eum ridebunt, et dicent:
The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,
7 ecce homo, qui non posuit Deum adiutorem suum: Sed speravit in multitudine divitiarum suarum: et praevaluit in vanitate sua.
“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
8 Ego autem, sicut oliva fructifera in domo Dei, speravi in misericordia Dei in aeternum: et in saeculum saeculi.
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
9 Confitebor tibi in saeculum quia fecisti: et expectabo nomen tuum, quoniam bonum est in conspectu sanctorum tuorum.
I will praise You forever, because You have done it. I will wait on Your name— for it is good— in the presence of Your saints.