
Text -- Psalms 52:5 (NET)




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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
Clarke -> Psa 52:5
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;
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
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
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...
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 : Psa 37:35, Psa 37:36; Job 18:14, Job 20:6, Job 20:7; Luk 16:27, Luk 16:28
root : Pro 2:22

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Barnes -> Psa 52:5
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 -
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 -
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
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
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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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 52:1-9
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
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
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
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...
