Psalms

52 Why do you make your boast over what is bad, O you mighty one?+

The loving-kindness* of God* is all day long.+

 2 Adversities your tongue schemes up, sharpened like a razor,+

Working deceitfully.*+

 3 You have loved what is bad more than what is good,+

Falsehood more than speaking righteousness.+ Seʹlah.

 4 You have loved all devouring words,+

O you deceitful tongue.*+

 5 God himself will also pull you down forever;+

He will knock you down and tear you away from [your] tent,+

And he will certainly root you out of the land of the living ones.+ Seʹlah.

 6 And the righteous ones will see [it] and will be afraid,+

And over him they will laugh.+

 7 Here is the able-bodied man that does not put God as his fortress,+

But that trusts in the abundance of his riches,+

That takes shelter in adversities by him.+

 8 But I shall be like a luxuriant olive tree+ in God’s house;

I do trust in the loving-kindness of God to time indefinite, even forever.+

 9 I will laud you to time indefinite, for you have taken action;+

And I shall hope in your name, because it is good, in front of your loyal ones.+