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The Steadfast Love of God Endures

To the choirmaster. A Maskil^[a] of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
   The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
² Your tongue plots destruction,
   like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
³ You love evil more than good,
   and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
⁴ You love all words that devour,
   O deceitful tongue.

⁵ But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
⁶ The righteous shall see and fear,
and shall laugh at him, saying,
⁷ “See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”^[b]

⁸ But I am like a green olive tree
in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
forever and ever.
⁹ I will thank you forever,
because you have done it.
I will wait for your name, for it is good,
in the presence of the godly.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 52:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
2. Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction

Cross references:

1. Psalm 52:1 : 1 Sam. 22:9
2. Psalm 52:2 : Ps. 50:19
3. Psalm 52:2 : [Ps. 57:4]
4. Psalm 52:2 : Ps. 101:7
5. Psalm 52:3 : [Jer. 9:4, 5]
6. Psalm 52:5 : Prov. 2:22
7. Psalm 52:5 : See Ps. 27:13
8. Psalm 52:6 : See Ps. 40:3
9. Psalm 52:6 : See Ps. 2:4
10. Psalm 52:7 : See Ps. 49:6
11. Psalm 52:8 : Jer. 11:16; [Ps. 1:3; 37:35; 92:12, 13; 128:3; 144:12; Hos. 14:6]
12. Psalm 52:9 : Ps. 54:6
13. Psalm 52:9 : See Ps. 50:5