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Psalms 52:1

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

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In Context

2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.

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Cross References

Genesis 10:8And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

1 Samuel 21:7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.

Psalms 7:14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Psalms 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Psalms 54:3For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Psalms 94:4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and 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 →

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