52:8 But I 1 am like a flourishing 2 olive tree in the house of God;
I continually 3 trust in God’s loyal love.
1 tn 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 tn Or “luxuriant, green, leafy.”
3 tn Or, hyperbolically, “forever and ever.”