Psalms 52:5 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 52:5

Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

BSB

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ASV

God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. [Selah

KJV

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

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Commentary

3 voices

Eusebius of Caesarea

Commentary on the Psalms: Ps. 51 (52) (339)

And he will scrape you away from the tent, and will uproot you from the land of the living forever—so that the righteous, when they see it, will be afraid and will mock him, saying, "Look! a man who did not set God before himself as his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth, and empowered himself in his own disaster!"

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Pluck thee - Violently and suddenly as the Hebrew word signifies, from thy house and lands, and all the wages of thy righteousness. Root - 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.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (1870)

God shall likewise destroy thee for ever. Fain would the persecutor destroy the church, and therefore God shall destroy him, pull down his house, pluck up his roots, and make an end of him. He shall take thee away. God shall extinguish his coal and sweep him away like the ashes of the hearth; he would have quenched the truth, and God shall quench him. And pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, like a plant torn from the place where it grew, or a captive dragged from his home.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
אֵל֮	'el	God	H410 →
יִתָּצְךָ֪	yi.ta.tze.Kha	he will tear down you	H5422 →
לָ֫נֶ֥צַח	la.Ne.tzach	to perpetuity	H5331 →
יַחְתְּךָ֣	yach.te.Kha	he will snatch up you	H2846 →
וְיִסָּחֲךָ֣	ve.yi.sa.cha.Kha	and he will tear away you	H5255 →
מֵאֹ֑הֶל	me.'O.hel	from a tent	H168 →
וְשֵֽׁרֶשְׁךָ֨	ve.she.resh.Kha	and he will root up you	H8327 →
מֵאֶ֖רֶץ	me.'E.retz	from [the] land of	H776 →
חַיִּ֣ים	chai.Yim	living [people]	H2416 →
סֶֽלָה׃	Se.lah	Selah	H5542 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10
  Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
- Revelation 22:15
  But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 2:11
  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be harmed by the second death.
- Ephesians 5:5–6
  For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- Revelation 20:14–15
  Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.
Through
Psalms 27:13
Still I am certain to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 4:16
  Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
- Psalms 142:5
  I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
- Psalms 56:3
  When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.

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06About Psalms

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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