Psalms 52:1
9 verses
- 1
Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
- 2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- 3
You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
- 4
You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
- 5
God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
- 6
The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
- 7
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
- 8
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
- 9
I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.