Psalms Chapter 52 verse 8 Holy Bible
But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I trust in the lovingkindness of God for ever and ever.
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But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.
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But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever.
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But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
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The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
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But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
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And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. In conclusion, the psalmist contrasts his own condition, as one of God's people, with that of Doeg, which he had described in vers. 7-9. Doeg is about to be "plucked up" and "rooted out of the land of the living" (ver. 5); he is like a flourishing green olive tree planted in the sanctuary, or "house of God." Doeg is entirely without any trust in the Almighty (ver. 7); he declares of himself, I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever. It is questioned whether olive trees were at any time planted in the courts of either the tabernacle or the temple; but it certainly cannot be proved that they were not. In the courts of Egyptian temples trees were abundant (Herod., 2:138; Wilkinson, in the author's 'Herodotus,' vol. 2. p. 236), also probably in Phoenician temples (Perrot and Chipiez, ' Histoire de l'Art dans l'An-tiquite,' vol. 3. p. 322). And to this day there grow in the Hardin area at Jerusalem, on the site of the Jewish temple, a number of magnificent cypresses, olive, and lemon trees.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) But I am like.--The flourishing olive alternates with the vine, in Hebrew poetry, as an emblem of prosperous Israel. (See Jeremiah 11:16; Hosea 14:6.) The epithet "green" hardly refers to the colour so much as the "vigour" of the tree, for the foliage of "wan grey olive wood" cannot be called verdant. But though the olive is scarcely, to our Western eyes, a beautiful tree, "to the Oriental the coolness of the pale-blue foliage, its evergreen freshness, spread like a silver sea along the slopes of the hills, speaks of peace and plenty, food and gladness" (Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 374).In the house of God.--Here and in the more elaborate simile (Psalm 92:13) the situation, "in the house of God," is added to show that the prophecy has come of religious trust. It is quite possible that trees were actually planted in the precincts of the Temple, as they are in the Haram area now, so that the rendering, "near the house of God," would express a literal fact. Or the whole may be figurative, as in the verse, "like the olive branches round about Thy table."
