Psalm 52

God’s Judgement and Grace⁺ⁿ

52 Why do you boast, great one, of your evil?

God’s faithfulness is eternal.

²You make plans to ruin others;

your tongue is like a sharp razor.

You are always inventing lies.

³You love evil more than good

and falsehood more than truth.

⁴You love to hurt people with your words, you liar!

⁵So God will ruin you for ever;

he will take hold of you and snatch you from your home;

he will remove you from the world of the living.

⁶Righteous people will see this and be afraid;

then they will laugh at you and say,

⁷“Look, here is someone who did not depend on God for safety,

but trusted instead in his great wealth

and looked for security in being wicked.”

⁸But I am like an olive tree growing in the house of God;

I trust in his constant love for ever and ever.

⁹I will always thank you, God, for what you have done;

in the presence of your people

I will proclaim that you are good.