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 Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children;
• Ps 107:1Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
• Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
• 1 Sam 21:7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
• Isa 59:4No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity, and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and give birth to iniquity.
• Prov 6:14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.
• Ps 36:3–6The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
• Ps 7:14Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.
• Gen 10:8–9Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
• Ps 137:1–2By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
• Ps 10:2–3In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
• 1 Sam 22:9–19Then Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, answered and said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
• 2 Tim 3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• Gen 6:4–5The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
• Exod 22:9For every matter of trespass, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any kind of lost thing, about which one says, ‘This is mine,’ the cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God condemns shall pay double to his neighbor.
• Prov 6:18a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,
• 1 Jn 4:7–8Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.
• Ps 54:3For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
• Ps 59:7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”
• Jer 9:8Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he lays wait for him.
• Mic 7:3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
• Rom 1:30backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
• Ps 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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