Text -- Psalms 52:5 (NET)

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)

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 52:5

¹ tn The adverb גַּם (gam, “also; even”) is translated here in an adversative sense (“yet”). It highlights the contrastive correspondence between the evildoer’s behavior and God’s response.

² tn Heb “will tear you down forever.”

³ tn This rare verb (חָתָה, khatah) occurs only here and in Prov 6:27; 25:22; Isa 30:14.

⁴ tn Heb “from [your] tent.”