Psalm 52:1WEB
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
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For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.”
Psalm 52:1WEB
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
Psalm 52:2WEB
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 52:3WEB
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
Psalm 52:4WEB
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
Psalm 52:5WEB
God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalm 52:6WEB
The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
Psalm 52:7WEB
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
Psalm 52:8WEB
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
Psalm 52:9WEB
I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.