Psalms 52:8

David pictures himself as a flourishing olive tree in God's house, secure because he trusts God's love forever. It contrasts the believer's lasting fruitfulness with the wicked's destruction.

Cross-references · 9

• Ps 92:12–14The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
• Hos 14:6–8His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
• Ps 1:3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
• Ps 13:5But I trust in your loving kindness. My heart rejoices in your salvation.
• Jer 11:16Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.
• Rom 11:24For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
• Ps 147:11Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his loving kindness.
• Ps 128:3Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
• Ps 33:18Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;

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