Psalms 52:1
Unto the end, understanding for David,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
In Context
2when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul David went to the house of Achimelech
Cross References
Genesis 10:8Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on earth.
1 Samuel 21:7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, within the tabernacle of the Lord: and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of Saul's herdsmen.
Psalms 7:14And in it he hath prepared the instruments of death, he hath made ready his arrows for them that burn.
Psalms 54:3Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength.
Psalms 94:4Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?
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 →