Psalms 52
1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David.
2 When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
3 Why do you boast of evil, mighty one? God’s steadfast love lasts all day long.
4 Your tongue plots ruin like a sharpened razor, you who practice deceit.
5 You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah.
6 You love every word that destroys, you deceitful tongue.
7 God will also bring you down forever; he will seize you, tear you from your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.
8 The righteous will see and be afraid, then laugh at him.
9 Look at the man who did not make God his stronghold, but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong in his own ruin.
10 But I am like a flourishing olive tree in the house of God; I trust in God’s steadfast love forever and ever.
11 I will praise you forever, because you have acted. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of your faithful ones.
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