Psalms 52:1
Why dost thou boast thyself of wickedness, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of GOD, [lasteth] all the day.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
In Context
2Engulfing ruin, doth thy tongue devise, Like a whetted razor, working deceit;
Cross References
Genesis 10:8And, Cush begat Nimrod.—he, became a hero in the earth;
1 Samuel 21:7Now, in that very place, was a man of the servants of Saul, on that day, detained before Yahweh, whose name, was Doeg the Edomite,—chief of the shepherds that belonged unto Saul.
Psalms 7:14Lo! he gendereth trouble, and conceiveth mischief, but giveth birth to a disappointment:
Psalms 10:7With cursing, his mouth is full, and with deceptions and oppression, Under his tongue, are trouble and mischief:
Psalms 54:3For, aliens, have risen up against me, And, men of violence, have sought my life, They have not set God before them. [Selah.]
Psalms 94:4They pour forth [words], they speak arrogantly, All the workers of iniquity, do 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 →