1 Vir die musiekleier. 'n Onderwysing van Dawid.
2 toe Doëg, die Edomiet, gekom het en aan Saul te kenne gegee en aan hom gesê het: Dawid het in die huis van Ahim,leg ingegaan.
3 Wat beroem jy jou in die kwaad, o geweldige? Die goedertierenheid van God duur die hele dag!
4 Jou tong beraam onheil, soos 'n geslypte skeermes, o werker van bedrog!
5 Jy hou meer van kwaad as van goed, van die leuen meer as om geregtigheid te spreek. Sela.
6 Jy hou net van woorde wat verslind, o bedrieglike tong!
7 So sal God jou dan ook vir ewig omverwerp, jou wegruk en jou uit die tent uitsleep; ja, Hy sal jou ontwortel uit die land van die lewendes. Sela.
8 En die regverdiges sal dit sien en vrees; en hulle sal oor hom lag en sê:
9 Kyk, die man wat God nie tot sy toevlug gemaak het nie, maar vertrou het op die grootheid van sy rykdom, sterk was in sy begeerlikheid! [ (Psalms 52:10) Maar ek sal wees soos 'n groen olyfboom in die huis van God; ek vertrou op die goedertierenheid van God vir ewig en altyd. ] [ (Psalms 52:11) Vir ewig sal ek U loof, omdat U dit gedoen het; en ek sal u Naam verwag, want die is goed, in teenwoordigheid van u gunsgenote. ]
1 To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David.\
2 \52:1\When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.
3 \52:1\Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
4 \52:2\Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
5 \52:3\You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)
6 \52:4\Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
7 \52:5\But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
8 \52:6\The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:
9 \52:7\See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
10 \52:8\But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.
11 \52:9\I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.