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Psalm 52

Judgment on the Deceitful

To the leader. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast, O mighty one,
    of mischief done against the godly?[a]
    All day long(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 52.1 Cn Compare Syr: Heb the kindness of God

17 But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
    on those who fear him,
    and his righteousness to children’s children,

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Book V

(Psalms 107–150)

Psalm 107

Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Many Troubles

O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
    for his steadfast love endures forever.(A)

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They pour out their arrogant words;
    all the evildoers boast.(A)

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14 with perverted mind devising evil,
    continually sowing discord;(A)

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Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s shepherds.(A)

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No one brings suit justly;
    no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas; they speak lies,
    conceiving mischief and bearing iniquity.(A)

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14 See how they conceive evil
    and are pregnant with mischief
    and bring forth lies.(A)

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Cush became the father of Nimrod; he was the first on earth to become a mighty warrior. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the Lord.”(A)

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For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,(A)

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18 a heart that devises wicked plans,
    feet that hurry to run to evil,(A)

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Psalm 137

Lament over the Destruction of Jerusalem

By the rivers of Babylon—
    there we sat down, and there we wept
    when we remembered Zion.(A)
On the willows[a] there
    we hung up our harps.

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Footnotes

  1. 137.2 Or poplars

The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit;
    they have ceased to act wisely and do good.(A)
They plot mischief while on their beds;
    they are set on a way that is not good;
    they do not reject evil.(B)

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
    your faithfulness to the clouds.
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains;
    your judgments are like the great deep;
    you save humans and animals alike, O Lord.(C)

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