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[a]This is the reason why God will crush you
    and destroy you once and for all.
He will snatch you from your tent[b]
    and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:7 The wicked will be brought down by God while the righteous will subsist and mock them (see Ps 28:5; Job 18:14; Prov 2:22; Isa 22:17). The end of the wicked will be that of the foolish rich of Ps 49.
  2. Psalm 52:7 Tent: the earthly dwelling (see Job 18:14).

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

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“Here is the man who did not make God his strength,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches,
And strengthened himself in his [a]wickedness.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:7 Lit. desire, in evil sense