Psalms 52:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

Psalms 52:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 92:12-14
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. …
Hosea 14:6-8
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. …
Psalms 1:3
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Psalms 13:5
But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Jeremiah 11:16
The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-9)

David was at this time in great distress; the mischief Doeg had done him was but the beginning of his sorrows; and yet here we have him triumphing, and that is more than rejoicing, in tribulation. Blessed Paul, in the midst of his troubles, is in the midst of his triumphs, 2 Cor. 2:14. David here triumphs, I. In the fall of Doeg. Yet, lest this should look like personal revenge, he does not speak…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. The figure used is common (Psa 1:3; Jr 11:16). green--fresh. house, &c.--in communion with God (compare Psa 27:4, 5). for ever and ever--qualifies “mercy.”