Psalms 52:5

Yet ¹  God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. ²  He will scoop you up ³  and remove you from your home; ⁴  he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

Job 18:14; Job 20:6,7; Ps 7:14-16; Ps 27:13; Ps 37:35,36; Ps 55:23; Ps 64:7-10; Ps 116:9; Ps 120:2-4; Ps 140:9-11; Pr 2:22; Pr 12:19; Pr 19:5,9; Isa 38:11; Lu 16:27,28; Re 21:8

¹ 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 tn Heb “will tear you down forever.”

³ tn This rare verb (חָתָה, khatah) occurs only here and in Prov 6:27; 25:22; Isa 30:14.

⁴ tn Heb “from [your] tent.”