Psalms 52:1
For 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.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
In Context
2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
Cross References
Genesis 10:8Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.
1 Samuel 21:7Now one of Saul’s servants was there that day, detained before the LORD. And his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief shepherd for Saul.
Psalms 7:14Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Psalms 54:3For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life—men with no regard for God. Selah
Psalms 94:4They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
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 →