Psalms 52:1
Why glory in mischief, you hero? God’s kindness is all the day.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
In Context
2Engulfing ruin you plot, your tongue like a razor sharpened, you practiser of deceit.
Cross References
Genesis 10:8Cush fathered Nimrod; he began to be known as a mighty one in the earth.
Psalms 7:14The enemy who conceives evil; pregnant with mischief, giving birth to lies,
Psalms 10:7Their mouths are full of deceit and oppression: under their tongues lurks mischief and wrong.
Psalms 54:3For proud men have risen against me, and terrible men seek my life, men who do not set God before them. Selah
Psalms 94:4with their blustering arrogant words, their braggart and wicked speech,
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 →