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Psalm 52:5
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.
3You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
4You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
5God 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.
6The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
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.”
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The tent offers no shelter from God’s judgment: this sentence of destruction confronts the apparent security of someone who loves lies and words that devour.
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Proverbs 2:22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.Both describe judgment on the wicked as being rooted out of the land.
Psalm 27:13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.Both name the land of the living, where one speaker expects God’s goodness and from which the other describes someone being removed.
Psalm 37:10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.Both describe the wicked losing their place, leaving no lasting foothold where they once lived.
Proverbs 24:16for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.Both describe the downfall of the wicked, though Proverbs contrasts that downfall with the righteous person’s repeated rising.
Deuteronomy 29:28The LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and thrust them into another land, as it is today.”Both portray God uprooting people from their land, though Deuteronomy describes displacement into another land.
1 Kings 14:15For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will …Both portray God’s judgment as uprooting, with Kings describing Israel’s removal from its land because of idolatry.
Psalm 37:38As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.Both speak of destruction for the wicked, cutting off the future they might have expected.
Revelation 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns …Both passages connect lying with judgment that ends in death, using different images for its severity.
Proverbs 21:12The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.Both attribute the ruin of the wicked to divine action against them.
Proverbs 19:9A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who utters lies shall perish.Both connect deceitful speech with destruction: the liar faces judgment that reaches beyond the words spoken.
Isaiah 38:11I said, “I won’t see the LORD, the LORD in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.Both speak of departure from the land of the living, though Isaiah records a speaker grieving his own expected death.
Job 18:14He will be rooted out of the security of his tent. He will be brought to the king of terrors.Both describe someone being uprooted from a tent, stripping away the shelter that seemed secure.
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The power to carry out this sentence belongs to God. The deceitful person’s wealth and shelter cannot keep him secure against God’s judgment.
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