Psalms 52:3

3 You love evil more than good, you call black white.

Psalms 52:3 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 52:3

Thou lovest evil more than good
Indeed not good at all; such comparatives being strong negatives; see ( Psalms 118:8 Psalms 118:9 ) ; a wicked man loves evil, and nothing else; his carnal mind being enmity to all that is good

[and] lying rather than to speak righteousness;
as appears by his affirming that Ahimelech inquired of the Lord for David, when he did not, ( 1 Samuel 22:10 1 Samuel 22:15 ) ; and by suffering some things to pass for truths which were falsehoods, when it lay in his power to have disproved them: and such a lover of lies is antichrist; see ( 1 Timothy 4:2 ) ( 2 Thessalonians 2:11 ) .

Selah; on this word, (See Gill on Psalms 3:2). The Targum renders the word "Selah" here "for ever", as in ( Psalms 52:5 ) .

Psalms 52:3 In-Context

1 Why do you brag of evil, "Big Man"? God's mercy carries the day.
2 You scheme catastrophe; your tongue cuts razor-sharp, artisan in lies.
3 You love evil more than good, you call black white.
4 You love malicious gossip, you foul-mouth.
5 God will tear you limb from limb, sweep you up and throw you out, Pull you up by the roots from the land of life.
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