Psalms 52:1
To the Overseer. — An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, 'David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God [is] all the day.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.
In Context
2Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Cross References
Genesis 10:8And Cush hath begotten Nimrod;
1 Samuel 21:7And there [is] a man of the servants of Saul on that day detained before Jehovah, and his name [is] Doeg the Edomite, chief of the shepherds whom Saul hath.
Psalms 7:14Lo, he travaileth [with] iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
Psalms 10:7Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,
Psalms 54:3For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.
Psalms 94:4They utter — they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do 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 →