Psalm 52
God Judges the Proud
For the choir director. A Maskil of David. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”(A)
1 Why boast about evil, you hero!(B)
God’s faithful love is constant.(C)
2 Like a sharpened razor,
your tongue devises destruction,
working treachery.(D)
3 You love evil instead of good,
lying instead of speaking truthfully.(E)Selah
4 You love any words that destroy,
you treacherous tongue!(F)
5 This is why God will bring you down forever.
He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living.(G)Selah
6 The righteous will see and fear,
and they will derisively say about that hero,(H)
7 “Here is the man
who would not make God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”(I)
8 But I am like a flourishing olive tree
in the house of God;(J)
I trust in God’s faithful love forever and ever.(K)
9 I will praise you forever for what you have done.
In the presence of your faithful people,
I will put my hope in your name, for it is good.(L)
Footnotes
- 52:6
Cross references
- 52:0 : 1Sm 22:9
- 52:1 : Ps 94:4
- 52:1 : Ps 40:10–11; 138:2
- 52:2 : Ps 5:9; 50:19; 59:7
- 52:3 : Ps 58:3; Jr 9:4–5
- 52:4 : Ps 10:7; Pr 17:4
- 52:5 : Ps 27:13; Pr 2:22
- 52:6 : Jb 22:19–20; Ps 37:34
- 52:7 : Ps 10:6; 49:6; Pr 11:28
- 52:8 : Ps 1:3; 128:3; Jr 11:16
- 52:8 : Ps 143:8
- 52:9 : Ps 30:12; 54:6
