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Text -- Psalms 52:5 (NET)

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52:5 Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)
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 · Selah a musical notation for crescendo or emphasis by action (IBD)


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Wicked | Rich, The | PSALMS, BOOK OF | Music | Lies and Deceits | LIVELY; LIVING | Doeg | David | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Psa 52:5 - -- Violently and suddenly as the Hebrew word signifies, from thy house and lands, and all the wages of thy righteousness.

Violently and suddenly as the Hebrew word signifies, from thy house and lands, and all the wages of thy righteousness.

Wesley: Psa 52:5 - -- Though thou seemest to have taken deep root, yet God shall pluck thee up by the very roots, and destroy thee both root and branch.

Though thou seemest to have taken deep root, yet God shall pluck thee up by the very roots, and destroy thee both root and branch.

JFB: Psa 52:5 - -- Or, "so," "also," as you have done to others God will do to you (Psa 18:27). The following terms describe the most entire ruin.

Or, "so," "also," as you have done to others God will do to you (Psa 18:27). The following terms describe the most entire ruin.

Clarke: Psa 52:5 - -- God shall likewise destroy thee - 1.    God shall set himself to destroy thee; יתצך yittotscha , "he will pull down thy building...

God shall likewise destroy thee -

1.    God shall set himself to destroy thee; יתצך yittotscha , "he will pull down thy building;"he shall unroof it, dilapidate, and dig up thy foundation

2.    He shall bruise or break thee to pieces for ever; thou shalt have neither strength, consistence, nor support

3.    He will mow thee down, and sweep thee away like dust or chaff, or light hay in a whirlwind, so that thou shalt be scattered to all the winds of heaven. Thou shalt have no residence, no tabernacle: that shall be entirely destroyed. Thou shalt be rooted out for ever from the land of the living. The bad fruit which it has borne shall bring God’ s curse upon the tree; it shall not merely wither, or die, but it shall be plucked up from the roots, intimating that such a sinner shall die a violent death. Selah. So it shall be, and so it ought to be.

Calvin: Psa 52:5 - -- 5.God shall likewise destroy thee for ever From these words it is made still more evident that his object in dwelling upon the aggravated guilt of Do...

5.God shall likewise destroy thee for ever From these words it is made still more evident that his object in dwelling upon the aggravated guilt of Doeg, was to prove the certainty of his approaching doom, and this rather for his own conviction and comfort, than with a view to alarming the conscience of the offender. Accordingly, he declares his persuasion that God would not allow his treachery to pass unpunished, though he might for a time connive at the perpetration of it. The ungodly are disposed, so long as their prosperity continues, to indulge in undisturbed security; and the saint of God, when he sees the power of which they are possessed, and witnesses their proud contempt of the divine judgments, is too apt to be overwhelmed with unbelieving apprehensions. But in order to establish his mind in the truth which he announces, it is observable that the Psalmist heaps one expression upon another, — God shall destroy thee, take thee away, pluck thee out, root thee out, — as if by this multiplicity of words he would convince himself more effectually, that God was able to overthrow this adversary with all his boasted might and authority. 278 In adding that God would root him out of his dwelling-place or tent, 279 and out of the land of the living, he insinuates that the wicked will be destroyed by God, however securely they may seem to repose ir the nest of some comfortable mansion, and in the vain hope of living upon earth for ever. Possibly he may allude, in mentioning a tent, to the profession of Doeg, as shepherds have their dwelling in tents.

TSK: Psa 52:5 - -- God : Psa 7:14-16, Psa 55:23, Psa 64:7-10, Psa 120:2-4, Psa 140:9-11; Pro 12:19, Pro 19:5, Pro 19:9; Rev 21:8 destroy thee : Heb. beat thee down pluck...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Psa 52:5 - -- God shall likewise destroy thee for ever - Margin, "beat thee down."The Hebrew word means to "tear, to break down, to destroy:"Lev 14:45; Jdg 6...

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever - Margin, "beat thee down."The Hebrew word means to "tear, to break down, to destroy:"Lev 14:45; Jdg 6:30. The reference here is not to the "tongue"alluded to in the previous verses, but to Doeg himself. The language in the verse is intensive and emphatic. The main idea is presented in a variety of forms, all designed to denote utter and absolute destruction - a complete and entire sweeping away, so that nothing should be left. The word "here"used would suggest the idea of "pulling down"- as a house, a fence, a wall; that is, the idea of completely "demolishing"it; and the meaning is, that destruction would come upon the informer and slanderer "like"the destruction which comes upon a house, or wall, or fence, when it is entirely pulled down.

He shall take thee away - An expression indicating in another form that he would be certainly destroyed. The verb used here - חתה châthâh - is elsewhere used only in the sense of taking up and carrying fire or coals: Isa 30:14; Pro 6:27; Pro 25:22. The idea here "may"be that he would be seized and carried away with haste, as when one takes up fire or coals, he does it as rapidly as possible, lest he should be burned.

And shall pluck thee out of thy dwelling-place - literally, "out of the tent."The reference is to his abode. The allusion here in the verb that is used - נסח nâsach - is to the act of pulling up plants; and the idea is, that he would be plucked up as a plant is torn from its roots.

And root thee out of the land of the living - As a tree is torn up from the roots and thus destroyed. He would be no more among the living. Compare Psa 27:13. All these phrases are intended to denote that such a man would be utterly destroyed.

Poole: Psa 52:5 - -- Likewise i.e. totally and unavoidably, as thou didst destroy the priests. Pluck thee i.e. violently, and irresistibly, and suddenly remove thee, as...

Likewise i.e. totally and unavoidably, as thou didst destroy the priests.

Pluck thee i.e. violently, and irresistibly, and suddenly remove thee, as the Hebrew word signifies.

Out of thy dwelling-place from thy house and lands, and all the wages of thy unrighteousness. Or, out of his (i.e. the Lord’ s) tabernacle; in which thou didst seek and take the matter of thy slanders, and from which thou didst cut off the Lord’ s priests. Therefore God shall excommunicate thee from his presence, and from the society of the faithful.

Root thee out though thou seemest to have taken very deep rooting, and to be the more firmly settled for this barbarous cruelty, yet God shall pluck thee up by the very roots, and destroy thee both root and branch.

Out of the land of the living out of this world, as the phrase is taken, Isa 53:8 Eze 32:32 , and elsewhere; which was very terrible to him, who had all his portion in this world.

Gill: Psa 52:5 - -- God shall likewise destroy thee for ever,.... As a just retaliation for the mischief done to others; or, "therefore God shall destroy" z, &c. even bod...

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever,.... As a just retaliation for the mischief done to others; or, "therefore God shall destroy" z, &c. even body and soul in hell, with an everlasting destruction, which will be the case of every wicked man, and particularly of the antichristian party, Rev 14:10; the word is used of breaking down the house in which the leprosy was, Lev 14:45; and denotes the utter extinction of Doeg's family, and the irrecoverable ruin of antichrist, Rev 18:21;

he shall take thee away; as fire from the hearth, Isa 30:14; or as burning coals from the altar: a word from the root here used signifies a censer: and the meaning is, that as his tongue was a fire, and set on fire of hell, and he was as a burning coal, he was fit for nothing but to be cast into everlasting burnings;

and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place; "tent", or "tabernacle" a; referring to the tents of shepherds, he being the chief of Saul's shepherds, or to some stately palace he had built for himself to dwell in, upon his advancement at court; or rather to the tabernacle of the Lord, where he had been an hypocritical worshipper; but now should be cut off from the church of God, as a rotten member, and cast out of the tabernacle of Jacob, Mal 2:12; while David flourished as an olive tree in the house of the Lord, Psa 52:8;

and root thee out of the land of the living. In retaliation for his rooting out Ahimelech's family, and the inhabitants of Nob; so in like manner he and his should be destroyed root and branch, and not see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, nor enjoy eternal life in the world to come.

Selah; on this word; see Gill on Psa 3:2. The Targum renders the word "Selah" here "for ever", as in Psa 52:3.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 52:5 Heb “from [your] tent.”

Geneva Bible: Psa 52:5 God shall likewise ( c ) destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling place, and ( d ) root thee out of the la...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Psa 52:1-9 - --1 David, condemning the spitefulness of Doeg, prophesies his destruction.6 The righteous shall rejoice at it.8 David, upon his confidence in God's mer...

MHCC: Psa 52:1-5 - --Those that glory in sin, glory in their shame. The patience and forbearance of God are abused by sinners, to the hardening of their hearts in their wi...

Matthew Henry: Psa 52:1-5 - -- The title is a brief account of the story which the psalm refers to. David now, at length, saw it necessary to quit the court, and shift for his own...

Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 52:5-7 - -- The announcement of the divine retribution begins with גּם as in Isa 66:4; Eze 16:43; Mal 2:9. The אהל is not, as one might suppose, the holy...

Constable: Psa 42:1--72:20 - --II. Book 2: chs. 42--72 In Book 1 we saw that all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writ...

Constable: Psa 52:1-9 - --Psalm 52 David contrasted his trust in the Lord with the treachery of those who have no regard for Him i...

Constable: Psa 52:1-5 - --1. God's destruction of the treacherous 52:1-7 52:1 David addressed the wicked man directly. He marvelled that he would really boast about his evil si...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Hebrew title of this book is Tehilim ("praises" or "hymns"), for a leading feature in its contents is praise, though the word occurs in the title ...

JFB: Psalms (Outline) ALEPH. (Psa 119:1-8). This celebrated Psalm has several peculiarities. It is divided into twenty-two parts or stanzas, denoted by the twenty-two let...

TSK: Psalms (Book Introduction) The Psalms have been the general song of the universal Church; and in their praise, all the Fathers have been unanimously eloquent. Men of all nation...

TSK: Psalms 52 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Psa 52:1, David, condemning the spitefulness of Doeg, prophesies his destruction; Psa 52:6, The righteous shall rejoice at it; Psa 52:8, ...

Poole: Psalms (Book Introduction) OF PSALMS THE ARGUMENT The divine authority of this Book of PSALMS is so certain and evident, that it was never questioned in the church; which b...

MHCC: Psalms (Book Introduction) David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were writ...

MHCC: Psalms 52 (Chapter Introduction) (Psa 52:1-5) The enemies of the truth and the church described, Their destruction. (Psa 52:6-9) The righteous rejoice.

Matthew Henry: Psalms (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Psalms We have now before us one of the choicest and most excellent parts of all the Old Te...

Matthew Henry: Psalms 52 (Chapter Introduction) David, no doubt, was in very great grief when he said to Abiathar (1Sa 22:22), " I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's hou...

Constable: Psalms (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is Tehillim, which means...

Constable: Psalms (Outline) Outline I. Book 1: chs. 1-41 II. Book 2: chs. 42-72 III. Book 3: chs. 73...

Constable: Psalms Psalms Bibliography Allen, Ronald B. "Evidence from Psalm 89." In A Case for Premillennialism: A New Consensus,...

Haydock: Psalms (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PSALMS. INTRODUCTION. The Psalms are called by the Hebrew, Tehillim; that is, hymns of praise. The author, of a great part of ...

Gill: Psalms (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALMS The title of this book may be rendered "the Book of Praises", or "Hymns"; the psalm which our Lord sung at the passover is c...

Gill: Psalms 52 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 52 To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is co...

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