Psalms 52 / 150
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(The Steadfast Love of God Endures)To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech."
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
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Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
- 3
You love evil more than good,
and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
- 4
You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
- 5
But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- 6
The righteous shall see and fear,
and shall laugh at him, saying,
- 7
"See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!"
- 8
But I am like a green olive tree
in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
forever and ever.
- 9
I will thank you forever,
because you have done it.
I will wait for your name, for it is good,
in the presence of the godly.