| Psa. 52:1 |
Why do you boast in evil, O mighty one? / God's lovingkindness [endures] continually. |
| Psa. 52:2 |
Your tongue devises destruction; / [It is] like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. |
| Psa. 52:3 |
You have loved evil rather than good, / Falsehood rather than speaking righteousness. Selah |
| Psa. 52:4 |
You have loved all the devouring words, / O deceitful tongue. |
| Psa. 52:5 |
God will likewise break you down forever; / He will take you and pluck you up from [your] tent, / And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah |
| Psa. 52:6 |
And the righteous will see [it] and fear, / And they will laugh at him, [saying,] |
| Psa. 52:7 |
Behold, this is that mighty man / Who did not make God his strength, / But trusted in the multitude of his riches / [And] strengthened himself in his desire. |
| Psa. 52:8 |
But I, like a flourishing olive tree / In the house of God, / Trust in God's lovingkindness / Forever and ever. |
| Psa. 52:9 |
I will give You thanks forever, / For You have acted; / And I will hope in Your name in the presence of Your faithful ones, / For it is good. |