Psalm 52:5
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New International Version (©1984)
Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But God will break you down forever; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But God will ruin you forever. He will grab you and drag you out of your tent. He will pull your roots out of this world of the living. [Selah]

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

American Standard Version
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

Bible in Basic English
But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore will God destroy thee for ever: he will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.

Darby Bible Translation
łGod shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

English Revised Version
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

Geneva Study Bible

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

(c) Though God forbear for a time, yet at length he will recompense your falsehood.

(d) Even though you seem to be never so sure settled.

Wesley's Notes

52:5 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.

King James Translators' Notes

destroy...: Heb. beat thee down

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. likewise-or, "so," "also," as you have done to others God will do to you (Ps 18:27). The following terms describe the most entire ruin.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

52:1-5 Those that glory in sin, glory in their shame. The patience and forbearance of God are abused by sinners, to the hardening of their hearts in their wicked ways. But the enemies in vain boast in their mischief, while we have God's mercy to trust in. It will not save us from the guilt of lying, to be able to say, there was some truth in what we said, if we make it appear otherwise than it was. The more there is of craft and contrivance in any wickedness, the more there is of Satan in it. When good men die, they are transplanted from the land of the living on earth, to heaven, the garden of the Lord, where they shall take root for ever; but when wicked men die, they are rooted out, to perish for ever. The believer sees that God will destroy those who make not him their strength.


Psalm 27:13 I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living.
Proverbs 2:22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
Isaiah 22:18 And roll you tightly like a ball, To be cast into a vast country; There you will die And there your splendid chariots will be, You shame of your master's house.'
Isaiah 22:19 "I will depose you from your office, And I will pull you down from your station. (NASB ©1995)

Break Destroy Driving Dwelling Dwelling-Place End Everlasting Forever Likewise Pluck Pulleth Root Selah Snatch Surely Tear Tent Uproot Uprooted Uprooting


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.

God Ps 7:14-16 55:23 64:7-10 120:2-4 140:9-11 Pr 12:19 19:5,9 Re 21:8

destroy thee [heb.] beat thee down
pluck Ps 37:35,36 Job 18:14 20:6,7 Lu 16:27,28

root Pr 2:22

the land Ps 27:13 116:9 Isa 38:11

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