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Psalm 52 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:1 - For the choir director: A psalm[fn] of David, regarding the time Doeg the Edomite said to Saul, “David has gone to see Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior?
Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:2 - All day long you plot destruction.
Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor;
you’re an expert at telling lies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:3 - You love evil more than good
and lies more than truth.
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:4 - You love to destroy others with your words,
you liar!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:5 - But God will strike you down once and for all.
He will pull you from your home
and uproot you from the land of the living.
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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:6 - The righteous will see it and be amazed.
They will laugh and say,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:7 - “Look what happens to mighty warriors
who do not trust in God.
They trust their wealth instead
and grow more and more bold in their wickedness.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:8 - But I am like an olive tree, thriving in the house of God.
I will always trust in God’s unfailing love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:9 - I will praise you forever, O God,
for what you have done.
I will trust in your good name
in the presence of your faithful people.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Hebrew maskil. This may be a literary or musical term.
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