- 52Why do you boast yourself in mischief, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually. 2Your tongue devises mischiefs, like a sharp razor working deceitfully. 3You love evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
- 4You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue. 5God shall likewise destroy you for ever. He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. 6The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him. 7Behold the man who made not God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
- 8But I am like a green olive tree in the House of God. I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. 9I will praise you for ever because you have done wonderful work. I will wait on your name, for you are good before your saints.
Psalm 52
To the chief musician, Maskil, a psalm of David when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said unto him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.