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Psalms 52
When Doeg the Edomite went and warned Saul, ‘David has gone to Ahimelech’s house’
1 Why make a boast of your wickedness, you champion in villainy, all day
2 plotting destruction? Your tongue is razor-sharp, you artist in perfidy!
3 You prefer evil to good, lying to honest speech; (Pause)
4 you love the destructive word, perfidious tongue!
5 That is why God will crush you, snatch you away for good, tear you out of your tent, uproot you from the land of the living.
6 Dread will seize the virtuous at the sight, they will laugh at his fate:
7 ‘So much for the man who refused to make God his fortress, but relied on his own great wealth and drew his strength from crime!’
8 I, for my part, like an olive tree growing in the house of God, put my trust in God’s love for ever and ever.
9 I mean to thank you constantly for doing what you did, and put my hope in your name, that is so full of kindness; in the presence of those who love you.