Psalm 52: 1-5 & 8-9 of 9. Tune: Martyrs

Sing Psalms
Psalm 52: 1-5 & 8-9 of 9
"Why do you boast of wickedness, you man of power and might?"
Tune: Martyrs
St. Peter's Free Church, Dundee
The images are only intended to provide resonances with some aspects of the psalm; they are not intended as a one-to-one correspondence.
image: David at Nob (1 Samuel 21-22)
For more on olive plants see Genesis 8:11, 1 Kings 6:23-34, Zechariah 4, Revelation 11:4.

For the Leader. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him: 'David is come to the house of Ahimelech.'

PSALM 52 C.M.

1 Why do you boast of wickedness,
you man of power and might?
Why boast all day, O you who are
disgraceful in God’s sight?

2 You plot destruction with your tongue,
so razor-sharp and keen.
You always work deceitfully;
3 you love things vile and mean.

You do not take delight in truth,
but in what’s false and wrong.
4 You love all harmful, evil words,
O you deceitful tongue!

5 But God will surely bring you down
to ruin and disgrace;
He will uproot you from your tent
and from your dwelling-place.

He’ll snatch you from the land of life
and carry you away.
6 The righteous, seeing this, will fear;
then they will laugh and say:

7 “This is the man who for his strength
on God did not rely;
He trusted in his wealth and power
to raise himself on high.”

8 But I am like an olive plant
in God’s house growing free;
I trust in God’s unfailing love
to all eternity.

9 I’ll praise you ever for your deeds;
my hope is in your name,
And in the presence of your saints
I will extol your fame.