Psa 52 | LSB | STEP | For the choir director. A Maskil of David. When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

Psalms 52

Psalm 52

I Trust in the Lovingkindness of God

For the choir director. A ^{▼▼Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful Psalm}Maskil of David. ^{▼▼1 Sam 22:9}When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

1 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.
2 Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
Falsehood more than speaking what is right. ^{▼▼Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude}Selah.
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
5 ^{▼▼Or Also}But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living, Selah.
6 So that the righteous will see and fear,
And will laugh at him, saying,
7 “Behold, the man who would not set God as his strength,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
And was strong in his destruction.”
8 But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.
9 I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,
And I will hope on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your holy ones.

Psalms 52

Psalm 52

I Trust in the Lovingkindness of God

For the choir director. A ▼▼Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful PsalmMaskil of David. ▼▼1 Sam 22:9When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

For the choir director. A ^{▼▼Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful Psalm}Maskil of David. ^{▼▼1 Sam 22:9}When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”