Psalmorum 52

1 in finem intellectus David cum venit Doec Idumeus et adnuntiavit Saul et dixit venit David in domo Achimelech quid gloriatur in malitia qui potens est 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 diapsalma

You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth.

4 dilexisti omnia verba praecipitationis linguam dolosam

You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

5 propterea Deus destruet te in finem evellet te et emigrabit te de tabernaculo et radicem tuam de terra viventium diapsalma

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 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.