Psalms 52

¹ Why are you boasting in evil, O masterful man? Only the benignity of El lasts the entire day. ² Your tongue devises woes, Like a honed razor, you who practice deceit. ³ You love evil rather than good, Falsehood rather than speaking righteousness. ⁴ You love all pernicious words, O you deceitful tongue. ⁵ But El, He shall break you down permanently; He shall rake you up and tear you out from your tent, And He will root you out from the land of the living. ⁶ Then the righteous shall see and fear, And they shall ridicule him and say: ⁷ Here is the master who is not making Elohim his stronghold, And is trusting in the vastness of his riches; He is strengthening himself by his works of woe. ⁸ Yet I am like an olive tree flourishing in the House of Elohim; I trust in the benignity of Elohim which lasts for the eon and further. ⁹ I shall acclaim You for the eon, for You have acted, And I shall expect in Your Name, for it is good, Doing this in front of Your benign ones.