Psalms 52:2-9 ▼

2 All day long you are thinking up intrigues; your tongue is like a sharpened razor, you worker of deceit.

3 You love evil more than good, lying rather than saying what is right. Selah

4 You love all the words that create confusion, you deceitful tongue.

5 God too will strike you down forever, he will lay hold of you and pluck you from your tent, uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

6 The righteous will see and they will fear; but they will laugh at him:

7 “Behold the man! He did not take God as his refuge, but he trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and grew powerful through his wickedness.”

8 But I, like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God, I trust in God’s mercy forever and ever.

9 I will thank you forever for what you have done. I will put my hope in your name—for it is good, —in the presence of those devoted to you.