Psalm 52

¹Hey, powerful person!

Why do you brag about evil?

God’s faithful love lasts all day long.

²Your tongue devises destruction:

it’s like a sharpened razor, causing deception.

³You love evil more than good;

you love lying more than speaking what is right. Selah

⁴You love all destructive words;

you love the deceiving tongue.

⁵But God will take you down permanently;

he will snatch you up,

tear you out of your tent,

and uproot you from the land of the living! Selah

⁶The righteous will see and be in awe;

they will laugh at those people:

⁷“Look at them! They didn’t make God their refuge.

Instead, they trusted in their own great wealth.

⁸But I am like a green olive tree in God’s house;

I trust in God’s faithful love forever and always.

⁹I will give thanks to you, God, forever,

because you have acted.

In the presence of your faithful people,

I will hope in your name because it’s so good.