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.hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about <span class="nowrap">Psalm 52</span> in Hebrew (Masoretic) numbering. For <span class="nowrap">Psalm 52</span> in Greek Septuagint or Latin Vulgate numbering, see <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Psalm_53" title="Psalm 53">Psalm 53</a></span>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent haudio"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary album">Psalm 52</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight:bold;">"Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man?"</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:German_-_Leaf_from_Claricia_Psalter_-_Walters_W2664R_-_Open_Obverse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/German_-_Leaf_from_Claricia_Psalter_-_Walters_W2664R_-_Open_Obverse.jpg/260px-German_-_Leaf_from_Claricia_Psalter_-_Walters_W2664R_-_Open_Obverse.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="379" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/German_-_Leaf_from_Claricia_Psalter_-_Walters_W2664R_-_Open_Obverse.jpg/390px-German_-_Leaf_from_Claricia_Psalter_-_Walters_W2664R_-_Open_Obverse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/German_-_Leaf_from_Claricia_Psalter_-_Walters_W2664R_-_Open_Obverse.jpg/520px-German_-_Leaf_from_Claricia_Psalter_-_Walters_W2664R_-_Open_Obverse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1236" data-file-height="1800" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Beginning of Psalm 52 in <a href="/wiki/Claricia" title="Claricia">Claricia</a>'s Psalter</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other name</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Psalm 51</li> <li>"Quid gloriatur in malitia"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Text</th><td class="infobox-data">Attributed to <a href="/wiki/King_David" class="mw-redirect" title="King David">King David</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">Hebrew (original)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Psalm 52</b> is the 52nd psalm of the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Psalms" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Psalms">Book of Psalms</a>, beginning in English in the <a href="/wiki/King_James_Version" title="King James Version">King James Version</a>: "Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man?". In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek <a href="/wiki/Septuagint" title="Septuagint">Septuagint</a> and Latin <a href="/wiki/Vulgate" title="Vulgate">Vulgate</a> translations of the Bible, this psalm is <b>Psalm 51</b>. In Latin, it is known as "<b>Quid gloriatur in malitia</b>",<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is described as a <i>maskil</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> attributed to <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a>, and is said to have been written "when <a href="/wiki/Doeg_the_Edomite" title="Doeg the Edomite">Doeg the Edomite</a> went and told <a href="/wiki/Saul" title="Saul">Saul</a>, and said to him, "David has gone to the house of <a href="/wiki/Ahimelech" title="Ahimelech">Ahimelech</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In this psalm, David criticises those who use their talents for evil.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The psalm forms a regular part of <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jewish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox</a> and <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant</a> liturgies. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Context">Context</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_52&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Context"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The psalm's sub-heading refers to the occasion reported in <a href="/wiki/1_Samuel" class="mw-redirect" title="1 Samuel">1 Samuel</a> <a href="/wiki/1_Samuel_21" title="1 Samuel 21">21</a>–<a href="/wiki/1_Samuel_22" title="1 Samuel 22">22</a> when Doeg, the chief herdsman of <a href="/wiki/Saul" title="Saul">Saul</a>, the first king of Israel, informed Saul that <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a> had been received by <a href="/wiki/Ahimelech" title="Ahimelech">Ahimelech</a> at <a href="/wiki/Nob,_Israel" title="Nob, Israel">Nob</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Kohen" title="Kohen">priestly</a> town in the vicinity of <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, and assisted with the means for his flight. <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Kirkpatrick" title="Alexander Kirkpatrick">Alexander Kirkpatrick</a> observes that "the character denounced in the Psalm is in some respects such as we may suppose Doeg to have been. He was a man of wealth and importance as the chief of Saul’s herdmen (or, according to the LXX, the keeper of his mules). His tongue was "a deceitful tongue", because although the facts he reported were true, he helped to confirm Saul in a false and cruel suspicion.<sup id="cite_ref-kirkp_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kirkp-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> However, Kirkpatrick notes that<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>the entire absence of any reference to the cold-blooded and sacrilegious murder of the priests at Nob, in which Doeg acted as Saul’s agent, when all his other officers shrank from executing his brutal order, makes it difficult, if not impossible, to suppose that the Psalm was really written by David on that occasion, unless we could assume that it was composed after Doeg’s information was given but before the massacre was perpetrated, which is wholly improbable.<sup id="cite_ref-kirkp_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kirkp-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p> Instead, he argues that<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Just sufficient appropriateness may be traced to account for the title having been prefixed by the compiler of this division of the Psalter, or for the Psalm having been connected with the story of Doeg in some historical work from which the compiler took it.<sup id="cite_ref-kirkp_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kirkp-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Latin_divisions">Latin divisions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_52&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Latin divisions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This psalm opens the second section of the three traditional <a href="/wiki/Latin_Psalters#Divisions" title="Latin Psalters">divisions of the Latin psalter</a>, and for this reason the first words (<i>Quid gloriatur in malitia qui potens est iniquitate...</i>), and above all the initial "Q", were often greatly enlarged in <a href="/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript" title="Illuminated manuscript">illuminated manuscript</a> <a href="/wiki/Psalter" title="Psalter">psalters</a>, following the pattern of the <a href="/wiki/Beatus_initial" class="mw-redirect" title="Beatus initial">Beatus initials</a> at the start of <a href="/wiki/Psalm_1" title="Psalm 1">Psalm 1</a>, and the "D" of <a href="/wiki/Psalm_102" title="Psalm 102">Psalm 102</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Psalm_form">Psalm form</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_52&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Psalm form"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Hermann_Gunkel" title="Hermann Gunkel">Hermann Gunkel</a>'s system of classification, Psalm 52 was conditionally classified as an Individual Psalm of Trust, one that demonstrates an expression of trust or confidence in <a href="/wiki/YHWH" class="mw-redirect" title="YHWH">YHWH</a>'s assistant to the petitioner.<sup id="cite_ref-coogan_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coogan-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Book_of_Common_Prayer">Book of Common Prayer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_52&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Book of Common Prayer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer" title="Book of Common Prayer">Book of Common Prayer</a></i>, this psalm is appointed to be read on the morning of the tenth day of the month.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musical_settings">Musical settings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_52&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Musical settings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Sch%C3%BCtz" title="Heinrich Schütz">Heinrich Schütz</a> wrote a setting of a paraphrase of Psalm 52 in German, "Was trotzst denn du, Tyrann, so hoch", <a href="/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Heinrich_Sch%C3%BCtz" title="List of compositions by Heinrich Schütz">SWV</a> 149, for the <i><a href="/wiki/Becker_Psalter" title="Becker Psalter">Becker Psalter</a></i>, published first in 1628. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Text">Text</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_52&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Text"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following table shows the Hebrew text<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the Psalm with vowels, alongside the <a href="/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek">Koine Greek</a> text in the <a href="/wiki/Septuagint" title="Septuagint">Septuagint</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the English translation from the <a href="/wiki/King_James_Version" title="King James Version">King James Version</a>. Note that the meaning can slightly differ between these versions, as the Septuagint and the <a href="/wiki/Masoretic_text" class="mw-redirect" title="Masoretic text">Masoretic text</a> come from different textual traditions.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Septuagint, this psalm is numbered Psalm 51. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th># </th> <th>Hebrew </th> <th>English </th> <th>Greek </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right"><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align:right"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1241449095">.mw-parser-output .script-hebrew,.mw-parser-output .script-Hebr{font-family:"Ezra SIL SR","Ezra SIL","SBL Hebrew","Taamey Frank CLM","SBL BibLit","Taamey Ashkenaz","Frank Ruehl CLM","Keter Aram Tsova","Taamey David CLM","Keter YG","Shofar","David CLM","Hadasim CLM","Simple CLM","Nachlieli",Cardo,Alef,"Noto Serif Hebrew","Noto Sans Hebrew","David Libre",David,"Times New Roman",Gisha,Arial,FreeSerif,FreeSans}</style><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">לַמְנַצֵּ֗חַ מַשְׂכִּ֥יל לְדָוִֽד׃</span>‎ </td> <td>(To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Εἰς τὸ τέλος· συνέσεως τῷ Δαυΐδ·</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right"> </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095" /><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">בְּב֤וֹא ׀ דּוֹאֵ֣ג הָאֲדֹמִי֮ וַיַּגֵּ֢ד לְשָׁ֫א֥וּל וַיֹּ֥אמֶר ל֑וֹ בָּ֥א דָ֝וִ֗ד אֶל־בֵּ֥ית אֲחִימֶֽלֶךְ׃</span>‎ </td> <td>when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.) </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἐν τῷ ἐλθεῖν Δωὴκ τὸν ᾿Ιδουμαῖον καὶ ἀναγγεῖλαι τῷ Σαοὺλ καὶ εἰπεῖν αὐτῷ· ἦλθε Δαυΐδ εἰς τὸν οἶκον ᾿Αβιμέλεχ. -</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">1 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095" /><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">מַה־תִּתְהַלֵּ֣ל בְּ֭רָעָה הַגִּבּ֑וֹר חֶ֥סֶד אֵ֝֗ל כׇּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃</span>‎ </td> <td>Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually. </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ΤΙ ΕΓΚΑΥΧᾼ ἐν κακίᾳ, ὁ δυνατός, ἀνομίαν ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν;</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">2 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095" /><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">הַ֭וּוֹת תַּחְשֹׁ֣ב לְשׁוֹנֶ֑ךָ כְּתַ֥עַר מְ֝לֻטָּ֗שׁ עֹשֵׂ֥ה רְמִיָּֽה׃</span>‎ </td> <td>Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἀδικίαν ἐλογίσατο ἡ γλῶσσά σου· ὡσεὶ ξυρὸν ἠκονημένον ἐποίησας δόλον.</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">3 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095" /><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אָהַ֣בְתָּ רָּ֣ע מִטּ֑וֹב שֶׁ֓קֶר ׀ מִדַּבֵּ֖ר צֶ֣דֶק סֶֽלָה׃</span>‎ </td> <td>Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἠγάπησας κακίαν ὑπὲρ ἀγαθωσύνην, ἀδικίαν ὑπὲρ τὸ λαλῆσαι δικαιοσύνην. (διάψαλμα).</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">4 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095" /><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אָהַ֥בְתָּ כׇֽל־דִּבְרֵי־בָ֗לַע לְשׁ֣וֹן מִרְמָֽה׃</span>‎ </td> <td>Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἠγάπησας πάντα τὰ ῥήματα καταποντισμοῦ, γλῶσσαν δολίαν.</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">5 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095" /><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">גַּם־אֵל֮ יִתׇּצְךָ֢ לָ֫נֶ֥צַח יַחְתְּךָ֣ וְיִסָּחֲךָ֣ מֵאֹ֑הֶל וְשֵׁרֶשְׁךָ֨ מֵאֶ֖רֶץ חַיִּ֣ים סֶֽלָה׃</span>‎ </td> <td>God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">διὰ τοῦτο ὁ Θεὸς καθέλοι σε εἰς τέλος· ἐκτίλαι σε καὶ μεταναστεύσαι σε ἀπὸ σκηνώματός σου καὶ τὸ ρίζωμά σου ἐκ γῆς ζώντων. (διάψαλμα).</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">6 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095" /><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">וְיִרְא֖וּ צַדִּיקִ֥ים וְיִירָ֗אוּ וְעָלָ֥יו יִשְׂחָֽקוּ׃</span>‎ </td> <td>The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him: </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ὄψονται δίκαιοι καὶ φοβηθήσονται καὶ ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν γελάσονται καὶ ἐροῦσιν·</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">7 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095" /><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">הִנֵּ֤ה הַגֶּ֗בֶר לֹ֤א יָשִׂ֥ים אֱלֹהִ֗ים מָ֫עוּזּ֥וֹ וַ֭יִּבְטַח בְּרֹ֣ב עׇשְׁר֑וֹ יָ֝עֹ֗ז בְּהַוָּתֽוֹ׃</span>‎ </td> <td>Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἰδοὺ ἄνθρωπος, ὃς οὐκ ἔθετο τὸν Θεὸν βοηθὸν αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ᾿ ἐπήλπισεν ἐπὶ τὸ πλῆθος τοῦ πλούτου αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐνεδυναμώθη ἐπὶ τῇ ματαιότητι αὐτοῦ.</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">8 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095" /><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">וַאֲנִ֤י ׀ כְּזַ֣יִת רַ֭עֲנָן בְּבֵ֣ית אֱלֹהִ֑ים בָּטַ֥חְתִּי בְחֶסֶד־אֱ֝לֹהִ֗ים עוֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד׃</span>‎ </td> <td>But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἐγὼ δὲ ὡσεὶ ἐλαία κατάκαρπος ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ· ἤλπισα ἐπὶ τὸ ἔλεος τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος.</span></span> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:right">9 </td> <td style="text-align:right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1241449095" /><span class="script-hebrew" style="font-size: 110%;" dir="rtl">אוֹדְךָ֣ לְ֭עוֹלָם כִּ֣י עָשִׂ֑יתָ וַאֲקַוֶּ֥ה שִׁמְךָ֥ כִי־ט֝֗וֹב נֶ֣גֶד חֲסִידֶֽיךָ׃</span>‎ </td> <td>I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints. </td> <td><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἐξομολογήσομαί σοι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, ὅτι ἐποίησας, καὶ ὑπομενῶ τὸ ὄνομά σου, ὅτι χρηστὸν ἐναντίον τῶν ὁσίων σου.</span></span> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_52&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Publication_Society_of_America_Version" title="Jewish Publication Society of America Version">1917 translation</a> directly from Hebrew to English by the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_Publication_Society" title="Jewish Publication Society">Jewish Publication Society</a> can be found <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2652.htm">here</a> or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sefaria.org/Psalms.52?ven=The_Holy_Scriptures:_A_New_Translation_(JPS_1917)&lang=bi">here</a>, and an <a href="/wiki/The_Septuagint_version_of_the_Old_Testament_(Brenton)" title="The Septuagint version of the Old Testament (Brenton)">1844 translation</a> directly from the Septuagint by <a href="/wiki/Lancelot_Charles_Lee_Brenton" title="Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton">L. C. L. Brenton</a> can be found <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/septuagint/chapter.asp?book=24&page=51">here</a>. Both translations are in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In the Jewish <a href="/wiki/Chapters_and_verses_of_the_Bible" title="Chapters and verses of the Bible">verse numbering</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Psalms#Superscriptions" title="Psalms">ascription</a> of this psalm is verses 1 and 2, and the rest of the psalm begins from verse 3. However, the Christian verse numbering does not count the ascription.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Psalm_52&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://medievalist.net/psalmstxt/ps51.htm">Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 51 / 52</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170707092132/http://www.medievalist.net/psalmstxt/ps51.htm">Archived</a> 7 July 2017 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> medievalist.net</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Psalm heading to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv:Psalms%2052">Psalm 52</a> in the <a href="/wiki/New_International_Version" title="New International Version">New International Version</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Psalm heading to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+52&version=nkjv">Psalm 52</a> in the <a href="/wiki/New_King_James_Version" title="New King James Version">New King James Version</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Artscroll Tehillim, page 110</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-kirkp-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-kirkp_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-kirkp_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-kirkp_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kirkpatrick, A. 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150">150</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha" title="Biblical apocrypha">Apocrypha</a> or<br /><a href="/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books" title="Deuterocanonical books">Deuterocanonical</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_151" title="Psalm 151">151</a> (<a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Orthodox">Eastern Orthodox</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalms_152%E2%80%93155" title="Psalms 152–155">152–155</a> (<a href="/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox" class="mw-redirect" title="Syriac Orthodox">Syriac Orthodox</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalms_of_Solomon" title="Psalms of Solomon">Psalms of Solomon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethan_(biblical_figure)" title="Ethan (biblical figure)">Ethan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heman_the_Ezrahite" title="Heman the Ezrahite">Heman the Ezrahite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalms_of_Asaph" title="Psalms of Asaph">Asaph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achish" title="Achish">Achish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Types of psalm</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Psalms_of_Asaph" title="Psalms of Asaph">Psalms of Asaph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psalm_of_communal_lament" title="Psalm of communal lament">Communal lament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imprecatory_Psalms" title="Imprecatory 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