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Psalms 52
Why Do You Boast of Mischief?
1Why 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!”
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.
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