Psalms 52

1 For the leader. A maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul that David had gone to Abimelech’s house. Why glory in mischief, you hero? God’s kindness is all the day.

to/for to conduct Maskil to/for David in/on/with to come (in): come Doeg [the] Edomite and to tell to/for Saul and to say to/for him to come (in): come David to(wards) house: household Ahimelech what? to boast: boast in/on/with distress: evil [the] mighty man kindness God all [the] day

2 Engulfing ruin you plot, your tongue like a razor sharpened, you practiser of deceit.

desire to devise: devise tongue your like/as razor to sharpen to make: do deceit

3 Evil, not good, you love, and falsehood, not words of truth. (Selah)

to love: lover bad: evil from good deception from to speak: speak righteousness (Selah)

4 But you love all words that devour, and a tongue that is given to deceit.

to love: lover all word swallowing tongue deceit

5 But God, on his part, shall destroy you forever, grasp you and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. (Selah)

also God to tear you to/for perpetuity to snatch up you and to pull you from tent and to uproot you from land: country/planet alive (Selah)

6 Smitten with awe at the sight, the righteous shall laugh at you.

and to see: see righteous and to fear: revere and upon him to laugh

7 ‘Look’ (they will say) ‘at the hero who did not make God his stronghold, but trusted in his great wealth and in the strength of his riches.’

behold [the] great man not to set: make God security his and to trust in/on/with abundance riches his be strong in/on/with desire his

8 But I am like a fresh olive-tree in the house of God. I trust in the kindness of God for ever and evermore.

and I like/as olive luxuriant in/on/with house: temple God to trust in/on/with kindness God forever: enduring and perpetuity

9 I will render you thanks for ever for what you have done. I will tell how good you are in the presence of those who love you.

to give thanks you to/for forever: enduring for to make: do and to await name your for pleasant before pious your