At dusk on a bare hilltop, the plain white linen screen of the tabernacle court stands empty, one hanging loose in the wind, under a calm darkening sky.

Trust · David

Psalm 52

David wrote this about an informer whose report cost a town of priests their lives.

9 verses≈ 3 minBSB

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Where we are

1–41Book IDavid's prayers: 'The LORD is my shepherd'
42–72Book II'As the deer pants'; the throne under pressurePsalm 52
73–89Book IIIAsaph and Korah: the kingdom falls
90–106Book IVBack to Moses: the LORD reigns
107–150Book VSongs of ascents, and the last Hallelujah

Why Do You Boast of Evil?

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?

The loving devotion of God endures all day long.

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A small bronze razor lies on a dark whetstone, its edge bright, with a few drops of oil beside it in a hard side light.

Your tongue devises destruction

like a sharpened razor,

O worker of deceit.

You love evil more than good,

falsehood more than speaking truth.

Selah

You love every word that devours,

O deceitful tongue.

On a dry slope a black goat-hair tent lies torn from its pegs and blown flat, and beside it a great tree lies ripped out by the roots, the ground open, nobody there.

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin;

He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent;

He will uproot you from the land of the living.

Selah

The righteous will see and fear;

they will mock the evildoer, saying,

“Look at the man

who did not make God his refuge,

but trusted in the abundance of his wealth

and strengthened himself by destruction.”

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Narrated by Bob Souer · BSB audio, public domain

A broad old olive tree, heavy with silver-green leaves and ripe fruit, grips the pale stone beside a low stone enclosure, a plain tent beyond it, in clear noon light.

But I am like an olive tree

flourishing in the house of God;

I trust in the loving devotion of God

forever and ever.

I will praise You forever,

because You have done it.

I will wait on Your name—

for it is good—

in the presence of Your saints.

Pray

The tongue

Pray for someone who has been hurt by what another person said, even if that someone is you. Ask God to bring the truth to light and to keep bitterness out. Then pray about your own tongue. Where it has cut, ask His forgiveness, and go and put it right if you can.

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A verse to carry with you

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

Psalm 52:8

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