Psalms 52 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Continually — 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.

Deviseth — Expresses what thy wicked mind had devised. Deceitfully — Doeg pretended only to vindicate himself from disloyalty, 1 Samuel 22:8, but he really intended to expose the priests, to the king's fury.

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.

Fear — Reverence God's just judgment.

The house — In God's church, or among his people.

Thou 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.