Psalms52
Why Do You Boast of Evil?
1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?The loving devotion of God endures all day long.2Your tongue devises destructionlike a sharpened razor,O worker of deceit.3You love evil more than good,falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah4You love every word that devours,O deceitful tongue.5Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin;He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent;He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah6The righteous will see and fear;they will mock the evildoer, saying,7“Look at the manwho did not make God his refuge,but trusted in the abundance of his wealthand strengthened himself by destruction.”
8But I am like an olive treeflourishing in the house of God;I trust in the loving devotion of Godforever and ever.9I will praise You forever,because You have done it.I will wait on Your name—for it is good—in the presence of Your saints.