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Psalm 52:8

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.

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.”
8But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
9I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.
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A green olive tree in God’s house offers a picture of life grounded in his kindness, after the warning about a man who trusted riches.

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Where else Scripture says this

9 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 91:1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.God’s house and the Almighty’s shadow both picture a place with God, where the speakers describe trust or rest.
Psalm 92:12–14The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.Both compare a person to a flourishing tree, using living growth to picture the life of someone who belongs to God.
Hosea 14:6–8His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.Both use the olive tree as a picture of vitality, emphasizing its greenness in the psalm and its beauty in Hosea.
Psalm 1:3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.Both portray a person as a living tree, with green growth in Psalm 52 and an unwithered leaf in Psalm 1.
Jeremiah 11:16The LORD called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are …Both use a green olive tree, though Jeremiah describes fire and broken branches where the psalm expresses trust in God’s kindness.
Romans 11:24For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, …The shared image is an olive tree; the psalm describes the speaker’s trust, while Paul discusses wild and natural branches being grafted.
Romans 11:17But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the root and of the …Olive-tree imagery links the passages, though Paul emphasizes grafted branches sharing a root, while the psalm pictures a tree in God’s house.
Revelation 11:4These are the two olive trees and the two lamp stands, standing before the Lord of the earth.Both place olive-tree imagery in relation to God’s presence: a tree in his house and two trees standing before the Lord.
1 Timothy 4:10For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who …Both name God as the one to trust, with the psalm emphasizing his loving kindness and Paul naming him Savior.
Where this verse fits

Fear for the future. job loss or money fear. injustice and anger.

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Name one fear to God and affirm his kindness

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Encouragement

Your reasons for fear may remain as you pray. David speaks his trust amid a psalm about wickedness: God’s loving kindness is where he places his confidence.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).