The Book of Psalms
Psalms 52
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.”
Why Do You Boast of Evil?
1 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?The loving devotion of God endures all day long.Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142.
Your tongue devises destructionlike a sharpened razor,O worker of deceit.
You love evil more than good,falsehood more than speaking truth.Selah
You love every word that devours,O deceitful tongue.
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
The righteous will see and fear;they will mock the evildoer, saying,
“ Look at the manwho did not make God his refuge,but trusted in the abundance of his wealthand strengthened himself by destruction.”
But I am like an olive treeflourishing in the house of God;I trust in the loving devotion of Godforever and ever.
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.