{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/psa052.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/psa052.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/psa052.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nPsalms 52:1\n \npsa 52:1\nContinually - God is continually doing good: thou art continually doing mischief. O mighty - He speaks ironically. O valiant captain! To kill a few weak and unarmed persons. \nPsalms 52:2\n \npsa 52:2\nDeviseth - Expresses what thy wicked mind had devised. Deceitfully - Doeg pretended only to vindicate himself from disloyalty, Sa1 22:8, but he really intended to expose the priests, to the king's fury. \nPsalms 52:5\n \npsa 52:5\nPluck 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. \nPsalms 52:6\n \npsa 52:6\nFear - Reverence God's just judgment. \nPsalms 52:8\n \npsa 52:8\nThe house - In God's church, or among his people. \nPsalms 52:9\n \npsa 52:9\nThou hast - Destroyed mine and thine implacable enemies, and established me in the throne, of which I am no less assured, than if it were already done. I will continue in thy way, placing my whole confidence in thy power and goodness, and faithfulness. Before - In the presence of thy saints.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 52","type":"page"}