1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
4You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
5Surely 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
6The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,
7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
8But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
9I 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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Psalms 52
David, no doubt, was in very great grief when he said to Abiathar (1 Sam. xxii. 22), "I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house," who were put to death upon Doeg's malicious information; to give some vent to that grief, and to gain some relief to his mind under it, he penned this psalm,…
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