International Standard Version

Psalm 52

1 Why do you make evil the foundation of your boasting, mighty one? ^b God’s gracious love never ceases. ^c

2 Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.

3 You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude

4 You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue!

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

6 The righteous will fear when they see this, but then they will laugh at him, saying,

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.

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.

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.