Psalms 52:1
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
King James Version
In Context
2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp rasor, working deceitfully.
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 →