Psalm 52

English translation got from website: https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo

  1. For the conductor, a maskil of David.
  2. When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, « David came to the house of Ahimelech. »
  3. Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man? God’s kindness is constant.
  4. Your tongue plots destruction, as a sharpened razor, working deceit.
  5. You loved evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking righteousness forever.
  6. You loved all destructive words, a deceitful tongue.
  7. 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.
  8. And righteous men will see and fear, and laugh at him.
  9. « Behold the man who does not place his strength in God and trusts his great wealth; he strengthened himself in his wickedness. »
  10. But I am like a fresh olive tree in the house of God; I have trusted in the kindness of God forever and ever.
  11. 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.