1 Why do you make evil the foundation of your boasting, mighty one? b52:1 Or O warrior God’s gracious love never ceases. c52:1 Lit. love is all the day ISV — Psalm 52:1
2 Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery. ISV — Psalm 52:2
3 You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude ISV — Psalm 52:3
4 You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue! ISV — Psalm 52:4
5 But God will tear you down forever; he will take you away, even snatching you out of your tent! He will uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude ISV — Psalm 52:5
6 The righteous will fear when they see this, but then they will laugh at him, saying, ISV — Psalm 52:6
7 “Look, here is a young man who refused to make God his strength; instead, he trusted in his great wealth and made his wickedness his strength. ISV — Psalm 52:7
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the gracious love of God forever and ever. ISV — Psalm 52:8
9 Therefore I will praise you forever because of what you did; I will proclaim that your name is good in the midst of your faithful ones. ISV — Psalm 52:9