Psalms 52:1

David confronts a boastful, powerful man who glories in evil, contrasting his fleeting menace with God's unceasing love. It matters because human malice never outlasts God's steadfast faithfulness.

Cross-references · 23

• Ps 103:17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
• Ps 107:1O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
• Ps 94:4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
• 1 Sam 21:7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
• Isa 59:4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
• Prov 6:14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
• Ps 36:3–6The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
• Ps 7:14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
• Gen 10:8–9And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
• Ps 137:1–2By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
• Ps 10:2–3The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
• 1 Sam 22:9–19Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
• 2 Tim 3:2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• Gen 6:4–5There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
• Exod 22:9For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
• Prov 6:18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
• 1 Jn 4:7–8Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
• Ps 54:3For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
• Ps 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
• Jer 9:8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.
• Mic 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
• Rom 1:30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
• Ps 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

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