Psalm 52

    For the director of music. A maskil^[a] of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”
 ¹ Why do you boast of evil, you mighty man?
   Why do you boast all day long,
   you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?
² Your tongue plots destruction;
   it is like a sharpened razor,
   you who practice deceit.
³ You love evil rather than good,
   falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
                         Selah

⁴ You love every harmful word,
   O you deceitful tongue!
 ⁵ Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin:
   He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent;
   he will uproot you from the land of the living.
                         Selah

⁶ The righteous will see and fear;
   they will laugh at him, saying,
⁷ “Here now is the man
   who did not make God his stronghold
but trusted in his great wealth
   and grew strong by destroying others!”
 ⁸ But I am like an olive tree
   flourishing in the house of God;
I trust in God’s unfailing love
   for ever and ever.
⁹ I will praise you forever for what you have done;
   in your name I will hope, for your name is good.
   I will praise you in the presence of your saints.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 52:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term