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Psalm 52:5
New English Translation

5 Yet[a] God will make you a permanent heap of ruins.[b]
He will scoop you up[c] and remove you from your home;[d]
he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 52:5 tn The adverb גַּם (gam, “also; even”) is translated here in an adversative sense (“yet”). It highlights the contrastive correspondence between the evildoer’s behavior and God’s response.
  2. Psalm 52:5 tn Heb “will tear you down forever.”
  3. Psalm 52:5 tn This rare verb (חָתָה, khatah) occurs only here and in Prov 6:27; 25:22; Isa 30:14.
  4. Psalm 52:5 tn Heb “from [your] tent.”
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