Psalms 52:1
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. When Doeg the Edomite came and shewed Saul, and saide to him, Dauid is come to the house of Abimelech. Why boastest thou thy selfe in thy wickednesse, O man of power? the louing kindenesse of God indureth dayly.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
In Context
2Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.
Cross References
Genesis 10:8And Cush begate Nimrod, who began to be mightie in the earth.
1 Samuel 21:7(And there was the same day one of the seruants of Saul abiding before the Lord, named Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of Sauls heardmen)
Psalms 7:14Beholde, hee shall trauaile with wickednes: for he hath conceiued mischiefe, but he shall bring foorth a lye.
Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
Psalms 54:3For strangers are risen vp against me, and tyrants seeke my soule: they haue not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 94:4They prate and speake fiercely: all the workers of iniquitie vaunt themselues.
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 →