Psalm 52
English translation got from website: https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo
- For the conductor, a maskil of David.
- When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, « David came to the house of Ahimelech. »
- Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man? God’s kindness is constant.
- Your tongue plots destruction, as a sharpened razor, working deceit.
- You loved evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking righteousness forever.
- You loved all destructive words, a deceitful tongue.
- God, too, shall tear you down forever; He will break you and pluck you from [your] tent, and uproot you from the land of the living forever.
- And righteous men will see and fear, and laugh at him.
- « Behold the man who does not place his strength in God and trusts his great wealth; he strengthened himself in his wickedness. »
- But I am like a fresh olive tree in the house of God; I have trusted in the kindness of God forever and ever.
- I will thank You forever and ever when You have done [this], and I will hope for Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your devoted ones.