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Psalms 52
[1]
God’s loving kindness endures continually.
[2] Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
[3] You love evil more than good,
lying rather than speaking the truth.
Selah. [4] You love all devouring words,
you deceitful tongue.
[5] 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. [6] The righteous also will see it, and fear,
and laugh at him, saying,
[7] “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.”
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.”
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man?God’s loving kindness endures continually.
[2] Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
[3] You love evil more than good,
lying rather than speaking the truth.
Selah. [4] You love all devouring words,
you deceitful tongue.
[5] 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. [6] The righteous also will see it, and fear,
and laugh at him, saying,
[7] “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.”
[8] 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.
[9] 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.