PSALM 52

¹For the lead player, a David maskil, ²when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

    ³Why boast of evil, O warrior?

          —God’s kindness is all day long.

    ⁴Disasters your tongue devises,

          like a well-honed razor, doing deceit.

    ⁵You love evil better than good,

          a lie more than speaking justice.

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    ⁶You love all destructive words,

          the tongue of deceit.

    ⁷God surely will smash you forever,

          sweep you up and tear you from the tent,

              root you out from the land of the living.

selah

    ⁸And the righteous shall see and be awed

          and laugh over him.

    ⁹Look, the man who does not make

          God his stronghold,

    and who trusts in his great wealth,

          who would be strong in his disaster!

    ¹⁰But I am like a lush olive tree

          in the house of our God.

              I trust in God’s kindness forevermore.

    ¹¹I shall acclaim You forever, for You have acted,

          and hope in Your name, for it is good,

              before Your faithful.