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Psalm 52:8

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52:8But I14 am like a flourishing15 olive tree in the house of God;

I continually16 trust in God’s loyal love.

Read in Logos
Psalm 52:8: But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

Footnotes

  1. 14 The disjunctive construction (vav [ו] + subject) highlights the contrast between the evildoer’s destiny (vv. 5–7) and that of the godly psalmist’s security.
  2. 15 Or “luxuriant, green, leafy.”
  3. 16 Or, hyperbolically, “forever and ever.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

But I am like a green olive tree

in the house of God.

I trust in the steadfast love of God

forever and ever.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But I am like an olive tree

flourishing in the house of God;

I trust in God’s unfailing love

for ever and ever.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

But I am like a flourishing olive tree

in the house of God;

I trust in God’s faithful love forever and ever.

NLTNew Living Translation

But I am like an olive tree, thriving in the house of God.

I will always trust in God’s unfailing love.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

But I am like an olive tree flourishing

in the house of God.

I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever.

KJV 1900King James Version

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God:

I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.