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52 (0) For the leader. A maskil of David, when Do’eg from Edom came and told Sha’ul, “David has arrived at the house of Achimelekh”:

(1) Why do you boast of your evil, you tyrant,
when God’s mercy is present every day?
(2) Your tongue, as sharp as a razor,
plots destruction and works deception.

(3) You love evil more than good,
lies rather than speaking uprightly. (Selah)
(4) You love all words that eat people up,
you deceitful tongue!

(5) This is why God will strike you down,
seize you, pluck you from your tent
and uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

(6) The righteous will see and be awestruck;
they will jeer at him, saying,
(7) “This fellow would not make God his refuge,
but trusted in his own great wealth,
relying on his evil plots.”

10 (8) But I am like a leafy olive tree
in the house of God;
I put my trust in the grace of God
forever and ever.

11 (9) I will praise you forever for what you have done,
and I will put my hope in your name;
for this is what is good
in the presence of your faithful.

53 (0) For the leader. On machalat. A maskil of David:

(1) A brutish fool tells himself,
“There isn’t any God.”
Such people are depraved, all their deeds are vile,
not one of them does what is good.
(2) God looks out from heaven
upon the human race
to see if even one is wise,
if even one seeks God.
(3) Every one of them is unclean,
altogether corrupt;
not one of them does what is good,
not a single one.

(4) Won’t these evildoers ever learn?
They devour my people
as if they were eating bread,
and they never call on God!
(5) They will be gripped with terror,
even though now they are not afraid;
for God will scatter the bones
of him who is besieging you.
You are putting them to shame,
because God has rejected them.

(6) If only salvation for Isra’el
would come out of Tziyon!
When God restores his people’s fortunes,
what joy for Ya‘akov! what gladness for Isra’el!

54 (0) For the leader. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David, when the Zifim came and told Sha’ul, “David is hiding with us”:

(1) God, deliver me by your name;
in your power, vindicate me.
(2) God, hear my prayer;
listen to the words from my mouth.
(3) For foreigners are rising against me,
violent men are seeking my life;
they give no thought to God. (Selah)

(4) But God is helping me;
Adonai is my support.
(5) May he repay the evil
to those who are lying in wait for me.
In your faithfulness, destroy them!
(6) Then I will generously sacrifice to you;
I will praise your name, Adonai,
because it is good,
(7) because he rescued me from all trouble,
and my eyes look with triumph at my enemies.

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