Psalm 52

Revised Geneva Translation

52 Why do you boast of your wickedness, O man of power? The lovingkindness of God endures daily.

² Your tongue imagines mischief, like a sharp razor that cuts deceitfully.

³ You love evil more than good, lies more than to speak the truth. Selah.

⁴ You love all words that may destroy. O deceitful tongue!

⁵ So shall God destroy you forever. He shall take you and pluck you out of your tabernacle, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

⁶ Also, the righteous shall see it, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,

⁷ “Behold the man who did not take God for His strength but trusted in the multitude of his riches and put his strength in his malice.”

⁸ But I shall be like a green olive tree in the House of God. I trusted in the mercy of God forever and ever.

⁹ I will always praise You because You have done this. And I will hope in Your Name because it is good before Your saints. To him who excels on Mahalath: A Psalm of David to give instruction