5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.
5 God shall likewise destroy
5 But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
5 God will tear you limb from limb, sweep you up and throw you out, Pull you up by the roots from the land of life.
5 God shall likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
5 But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 52:5
Commentary on Psalm 52:1-5
(Read Psalm 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.