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The Blue Letter Bible

Psalm 52 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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I Trust in the Lovingkindness of God

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For the choir director. A [fn]Maskil of David. [fn]When Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?

The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

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Your tongue devises destruction,

Like a sharp razor, O worker of deceit.

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You love evil more than good,

Falsehood more than speaking what is right. [fn]Selah.

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You love all words that devour,

O deceitful tongue.

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[fn]But God will break you down forever;

He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,

And uproot you from the land of the living, Selah.

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So that the righteous will see and fear,

And will laugh at him, saying,

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“Behold, the man who would not set God as his strength,

But trusted in the abundance of his riches

And was strong in his destruction.”

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But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;

I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.

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I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,

And I will hope on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your holy ones.

LSB Footnotes
Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful Psalm
1 Sam 22:9
Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude
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