{"book":"Psalms","slug":"psalms","ch":52,"genre":"poetry","sub":"The Book of Psalms","prev":"psalms/51","next":"psalms/53","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"1 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God [endures] all day long.","f":["Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"1 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"The loving devotion of God [endures] all day long."}],"h":"Why Do You Boast of Evil?","style":"pshdg"},{"v":2,"t":"Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Your tongue devises destruction"},{"style":"indent2","t":"like a sharpened razor,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"O worker of deceit."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":3,"t":"You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"You love evil more than good,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"falsehood more than speaking truth."},{"style":"selah","t":"Selah"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"You love every word that devours,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"O deceitful tongue."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"Surely 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. Selah","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"He will snatch you up and tear you away from [your] tent;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"He will uproot you from the land of the living."},{"style":"selah","t":"Selah"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":6,"t":"The righteous will see and fear; they will mock [the evildoer], saying,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The righteous will see and fear;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they will mock [the evildoer], saying,"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"“ Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth [and] strengthened himself by destruction.”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"“ Look at the man"},{"style":"indent2","t":"who did not make God his refuge,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"but trusted in the abundance of his wealth"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[and] strengthened himself by destruction.”"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"But I am like an olive tree"},{"style":"indent2","t":"flourishing in the house of God;"},{"style":"indent1","t":"I trust in the loving devotion of God"},{"style":"indent2","t":"forever and ever."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":9,"t":"I 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.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I will praise You forever,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"because You have done it."},{"style":"indent1","t":"I will wait on Your name —"},{"style":"indent2","t":"for it is good —"},{"style":"indent2","t":"in the presence of Your saints."}],"style":"indent1"}],"superscription":"For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him,“ David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”"}