Psalms 52:7

_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._ MADE NOT GOD HIS STRENGTH; BUT ... RICHES, AND ... WICKEDNESS - (1 Timothy 6:17; Luke 12:21; Psalms 62:10.) Compare, as to Saul, notes on title above. The 'continual endurance of God's goodness' (Psalms 52:1) to the godly is set forth, in contrast to the doom of the ungodly just described. Not only is the proud sinner destroyed, but the oppressed saint saved....

7._Lo! this is the man that made not God his strength _Some think that these words are given as what should afterwards be proverbially applied to Doeg; but they would not appear to have been intended in that restricted signification. They merely express the improvement which the people of God would make of the judgment. It would teach them, on the one hand, to be patient under the insolence of the ungodly, which is so speedily humbled; and, on the other, to beware of indulging a similarly infatuated spirit themselves. They would laugh at their destruction, yet not in the way of insulting over them, but rejoicing more and more in the confidence of the help of God, and denying themselves more cheerfully to the vain pleasures of this world. This is the lesson to be learned from such dispensations of providence: they should recall our wandering affections to God. The verse is introduced with...

6-9 Those wretchedly deceive themselves, who think to support themselves in power and wealth without God. The wicked man trusted in the abundance of his riches; he thought his wickedness would help him to keep his wealth. Right or wrong, he would get what he could, and keep what he had, and ruin any one that stood in his way; this he thought would strengthen him; but see what it comes to! Those who by faith and love dwell in the house of God, shall be like green olive-trees there. And that we may be as green olive-trees, we must live a life of faith and holy confidence in God and his grace. It adds much to the beauty of our profession, and to fruitfulness in every grace, to be much in praising God; and we never can want matter for praise. His name alone can be our refuge and strong tower. It is very good for us to wait on that saving name; there is nothing better to calm and quiet our s...

Verse Psalms 52:7. _MADE NOT GOD HIS STRENGTH_] Did not make God his _portion_. _IN THE ABUNDANCE OF HIS RICHES_] Literally, in the _multiplication_ _of his riches_. He had got much, he hoped to get more, and expected that his _happiness_ would _multiply_ as his _riches_ multiplied. And this is the case with most rich men. _STRENGTHENED HIMSELF IN HIS WICKEDNESS._] Loved money instead of God; and thus his depravity, being increased, was _strengthened_. Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit. "In proportion to the increase of wealth, so is the love of it." Where is the religious man, in whose hands money has multiplied, who h

LO, THIS IS THE MAN THAT MADE NOT GOD HIS STRENGTH - That is, the righteous Psalms 52:6 would say this. They would designate him as a man who had not made God his refuge, but who had trusted in his own resources. The result would be that he would he abandoned by God, and that those things on which he had relied would fail him in the day of calamity. He would be pointed out as an instance of what must occur when a man does not act with a wise reference to the will of God, but, confiding in his own strength and resources, pursues his own plans of iniquity. BUT TRUSTED IN THE ABUNDANCE OF HIS RICHES - See the notes at Psalms 49:6. From this it would seem that Doeg was a rich man, and that, as a general thing, in his life, and in his plans of e

EXPOSITION HERE, again, the title is the best guide to the origin, intent, and authorship of the psalm. It is ascribed to David, and said to have been written on the occasion when Doeg the Edomite acquainted Saul with the fact of David's visit to Ahimelech the priest, recorded in 1 Samuel 21:1. This information led to a fearful massacre, in which Doeg himself took the chief part (1 Samuel 22:11-9). The bitterness of feeling displayed in the psalm is thus accounted for. Metrically, the psalm seems to consist of three strophes, extending respectively to four, three, and two verses. In the first strophe Doeg's wickedness is set forth (1 Samuel 21:1); in the second ...

LO, [THIS IS] THE MAN [THAT] MADE NOT GOD HIS STRENGTH,.... The Targum renders it, "that made not the Word of the Lord his strength". These are the words the righteous would say, when they should see the destruction of Doeg: see the man, the mighty man, and his end; what all his ill gotten honour and riches are come to; and what his wickedness, deceit, and cruelty, have brought upon him. The righteous make the Lord their strength, put their trust in him, in whom is everlasting strength; do all they do in his strength; fly to him as their "strong hold", as the word b may be rendered; thither they run, and are safe: but the rich man's wealth is his strong city, Proverbs 18:10; there he thinks himself safe, and places his confidence in it, as follows: BUT TRUSTED IN THE ABUNDANCE OF HIS RICHES;...

TRUSTED (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

Psalms 52 The Proud and Boasting Man __ 1. The character of the man of sin (Psalms 52:1) 2. The character of the righteous (Psalms 52:8) The four Psalms which follow (all Maschil Psalms) give mostly a prophetic picture of the man of sin, the final Antichrist, the false messiah-king, under whom the godly in Israel will especially suffer. He is first described as the mighty man, the super-man, who boasts in evil. He is also a lying, deceitful man, “working deceitfully” and having a “deceitful tongue.” But God is going to deal with him, destroy him forever, take him away, pluck him out of his dwelling place, and out of the land of the living. He will be destroyed with the brightness of the Lord's com

LII. The Psalmist denounces an enemy of his who trusts in his wealth and in unscrupulous falsehood. He is confident that this adversary will be rooted up and that he himself will flourish and abide in the Temple. The reference to the Temple and the complete silence about the massacre of the priests shows that the title gives an impossible explanation of the Ps. PSALMS 52:1_ b_. Read, Against the godly man continually. Psalms 52:2. Translate O thou that workest deceitfully. But the text is probably corrupt. Psalms 52:5. Translate Shall snatch thee away and pluck thee up tentless. Psalms 52:7. w