Psalms 52:1
{To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God [abideth] continually.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
In Context
2Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
Cross References
Genesis 10:8And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.
1 Samuel 21:7(Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah; and his name was Doeg, the Edomite, chief of the shepherds that [belonged] to Saul.)
Psalms 7:14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, yea, he hath 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 the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 94:4[How long] shall they utter [and] speak insolence 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 →