Psalms 52:1
Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God [is] continual.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
In Context
2Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Cross References
Genesis 10:8And Cush begot Nimrod. He began to be a mighty man on the earth.
1 Samuel 21:7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the foremost of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
Psalms 7:14Behold [the wicked man], he travails with iniquity. Yea, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Psalms 54:3For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul. They have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 94:4They prate, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 52:1
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, wherein, as a prophet, and therefore with as good an authority as if he had been now a prince upon the throne, I. He arraigns Doeg for what he had done, ver. 1 . II. He accuses him, convicts him, and… Read the whole commentary →