Futility of Boastful Wickedness.
For the choir director. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
52 Why do you (A)boast in evil, O mighty man?
The (B)lovingkindness of God endures all day long.
2 Your tongue devises (C)destruction,
Like a (D)sharp razor, (E)O worker of deceit.
3 You (F)love evil more than good,
(G)Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.
4 You love all words that devour,
O (H)deceitful tongue.
5 But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and (I)tear you away from your tent,
And (J)uproot you from the (K)land of the living. Selah.
6 The righteous will (L)see and fear,
And will (M)laugh at him, saying,
7 “Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But (N)trusted in the abundance of his riches
And (O)was strong in his evil desire.”
8 But as for me, I am like a (P)green olive tree in the house of God;
I (Q)trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.
9 I will (R)give You thanks forever, because You have done it,
And I will wait on Your name, (S)for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.
Footnotes
- Psalm 52:1
- Psalm 52:1
- Psalm 52:3
- Psalm 52:5
- Psalm 52:7
Cross references
- Psalm 52:1 : Ps 94:4
- Psalm 52:1 : Ps 52:8
- Psalm 52:2 : Ps 5:9
- Psalm 52:2 : Ps 57:4; 59:7
- Psalm 52:2 : Ps 101:7
- Psalm 52:3 : Ps 36:4
- Psalm 52:3 : Ps 58:3; Jer 9:5
- Psalm 52:4 : Ps 120:3
- Psalm 52:5 : Is 22:18, 19
- Psalm 52:5 : Prov 2:22
- Psalm 52:5 : Ps 27:13
- Psalm 52:6 : Ps 37:34; 40:3
- Psalm 52:6 : Job 22:19
- Psalm 52:7 : Ps 49:6
- Psalm 52:7 : Ps 10:6
- Psalm 52:8 : Ps 92:12; 128:3; Jer 11:16
- Psalm 52:8 : Ps 13:5
- Psalm 52:9 : Ps 30:12
- Psalm 52:9 : Ps 54:6
