NASB:Psalm 52-150|Bible.eu

Futility of Boastful Wickedness.

For the choir director. A ^[a]Maskil of David, ^[b]when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

¹Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.
²Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
³You love evil more than good,
Falsehood more than speaking what is right. ^[c]Selah.
⁴You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.

⁵^[d]But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.
⁶The righteous will see and fear,
And will laugh at him, saying,
⁷“Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
And was strong in ^[e]his evil desire.”

⁸But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.
⁹I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,
And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.

Footnotes

Psalm 52:1 Possibly Contemplative, or Didactic, or Skillful Psalm
Psalm 52:1 1 Sam 22:9
Psalm 52:3 Selah may mean: Pause, Crescendo or Musical interlude
Psalm 52:5 Or Also
Psalm 52:7 Or his destruction

Psalm 52

Futility of Boastful Wickedness.

For the choir director. A [a]Maskil of David, [b]when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

Footnotes

For the choir director. A ^[a]Maskil of David, ^[b]when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”