Psalm 52

Modern

Literal

Why Do You Boast of Evil?

¹For the choirmaster. A Maskil^a of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?

The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

¹For the one directing. A Maskil of David, in the coming of Doeg the Edomite, when he announced to Saul and said to him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God is all the day.

²Your tongue devises destruction

like a sharpened razor,

O worker of deceit.

²Your tongue devises destruction, like a sharp razor working deceit.

³You love evil more than good,

falsehood more than speaking truth.

Selah

³You love evil more than good, lying more than speaking righteousness. Selah

⁴You love every word that devours,

O deceitful tongue.

⁴You love all devouring words, O tongue of deceit!

⁵Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin;

He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent;

He will uproot you from the land of the living.

Selah

⁵Even God will tear you down forever; He will take you up and pluck you out of the tent and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

⁶The righteous will see and fear;

they will mock the evildoer, saying,

⁶and the righteous will see and fear, and they shall laugh at him:

⁷“Look at the man

who did not make God his refuge,

but trusted in the abundance of his wealth

and strengthened himself by destruction.”

⁷“Behold the man who did not set God as his refuge, and who trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and took strength by destruction.”

⁸But I am like an olive tree

flourishing in the house of God;

I trust in the loving devotion of God

forever and ever.

⁸And I am green, like an olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

⁹I will praise You forever,

because You have done it.

I will wait on Your name—

for it is good—

in the presence of Your saints.

⁹I will confess You forever, because You have done it. And I will call on Your name, for it is good before of Your holy ones.