7"Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!"


In Context

4 You love every harmful word, O you deceitful tongue!

5 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

6 The righteous will see and fear; they will laugh at him, saying,

7 "Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others!"

8 But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever.

9 I will praise you forever for what you have done; in your name I will hope, for your name is good. I will praise you in the presence of your saints.

Psalms 52:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

52:7Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his wickedness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

52:7Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

52:7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

52:7Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his avarice.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

52:7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

52:7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

52:7|Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

52:7'Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

52:7See, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.