1 For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long. 2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. 3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah 4 You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue. 5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah 6 The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying, 7 “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.” 8 But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever. 9 I will praise You forever, because You have done it. I will wait on Your name—for it is good—in the presence of Your saints.
Psalms · Majority Standard Bible
Psalm 52 Majority Standard Bible
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (9)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 103:17; Psalm 107:1; Psalm 94:4; 1 Samuel 21:7; Isaiah 59:4
- 2 Proverbs 18:21; Proverbs 6:16–19; Proverbs 12:18; Psalm 57:4; Jeremiah 9:3–4
- 3 Jeremiah 9:3–5; John 8:44; 2 Timothy 3:4; Romans 1:25; Revelation 22:15
- 4 Psalm 120:3; James 3:6–9; 1 Samuel 22:18–19
- 5 Proverbs 2:22; Psalm 27:13; Revelation 21:8; Proverbs 12:19; Isaiah 38:11
- 6 Job 22:19; Psalm 40:3; Psalm 37:34; Revelation 15:4; Revelation 18:20
- 7 Jeremiah 17:5; Ecclesiastes 8:8; Psalm 73:18–20; Psalm 49:6–20; John 19:5
- 8 Psalm 92:12–14; Hosea 14:6–8; Psalm 1:3; Psalm 13:5; Jeremiah 11:16
- 9 Lamentations 3:25–26; Psalm 130:5–6; Psalm 73:28; Psalm 54:6; Psalm 62:5
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Neither must this multitude's throng be defrauded, nor their infirmity burthened. Silence we ask, and quiet, in order that our voice, after yesterday's labour, be able with some little vigour to last out.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
For he prefigures that society of men which says, "But I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I have trusted in the mercy of God." But let him not seek the empty honors of a famous name upon earth, for "Blessed is the man that maketh the name of the Lord his trust, and respecteth not …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Be "like a green olive tree in the house of God," never destitute of hope, but decked through faith with the bloom of salvation.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)