Psalms 52

God’s Judgment on the Wicked and Love for the Faithful

¹Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man?

The loyal love of God endures continually.

²Your tongue plans destruction,

like a sharp razor, working deceit.

³You love evil more than good,

a lie more than speaking what is right. Selah

⁴You love all devouring words,

O deceitful tongue,

⁵but God will pull you down forever.

He will snatch you and tear you away from your tent,

and he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

⁶And the righteous will see and fear,

and will laugh at him, saying,

⁷“Look, the man who would not make God his refuge,

but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth;

he took refuge in his destructiveness.”

⁸But I am like an olive tree flourishing

in the house of God.

I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever.

⁹I will give thanks to you forever, because of what you have done,

and I will wait on your name, because it is good,

in the presence of your faithful ones.