Psa. 52
:1
52:1
1Why do you boast in evil, O mighty one?
God’s lovingkindness
endures continually.
Psa. 52
:2
52:2
Your tongue devises destruction;
It is like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Psa. 52
:3
52:3
You have loved evil rather than good,
Falsehood rather than speaking righteousness.
Selah
Psa. 52
:4
52:4
You have loved all the devouring words,
O deceitful tongue.
Psa. 52
:5
52:5
God will likewise
1break you down forever;
He will take you and pluck you up from
your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living.
Selah
Psa. 52
:6
52:6
And the righteous will see
it and fear,
And they will laugh at him,
saying,
Psa. 52
:7
52:7
Behold, this is that mighty man
Who did not make God his
1strength,
But
atrusted in the multitude of his riches
And strengthened himself in his desire.
Psa. 52
:8
52:8
But I, like a flourishing
aolive tree
In the house of God,
Trust in God’s lovingkindness
Forever and ever.
Psa. 52
:9
52:9
I will give You thanks forever,
For You have acted;
And I will hope in Your name in the presence of Your faithful ones,
For it is good.
