Psalms · 9 verses
Psalms 52
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David places an olive tree in the house of God, then lets the righteous watch a deceitful man be torn from his tent.
A tongue like a razorvv. 1–7
The heading remembers a remarkably small act with remarkably large consequences: Doeg went to Saul and reported that David had gone to Ahimelech's house. David answers the boasting man by dwelling on his tongue—deceitful, devouring, and sharpened like a razor—before the judgment becomes a public scene, with the righteous watching and mocking the man who made destruction his strength.
The tree in the housevv. 8–9
Then comes the psalm's splendidly earthy turn: David is not uprooted but flourishing, an olive tree in the house of God. The ending leaves him praising what God has done and waiting on God's name among the saints, while the tree quietly keeps its leaves in the sacred setting.
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Ps 52:1For 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.
Ps 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Ps 52:3You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah
Ps 52:4You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
Ps 52:5Surely 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
Ps 52:6The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,
Ps 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
Ps 52:8But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
Ps 52:9I 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.
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- 8Psalms 92:12–14The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- 8Hosea 14:6–8His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
- 8Psalms 1:3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
- 8Psalms 13:5But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.
- 8Jeremiah 11:16The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
- 8Psalms 147:11The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
- 8Romans 11:24For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
- 8Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.
- 8Psalms 33:18Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
- 9Lamentations 3:25–26The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
- 4Psalms 120:3What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
- 7Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
- 9Psalms 130:5–6I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
- 1Psalms 103:17But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
- 4James 3:6–9The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
- 5Proverbs 2:22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
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