Psalms 52:8
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
KJV
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.
ASV
וְ/יִרְא֖וּ צַדִּיקִ֥ים וְ/יִירָ֗אוּ וְ/עָלָ֥י/ו יִשְׂחָֽקוּ
Hebrew
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,
YLT
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.
WEB
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Symbols
Olive Tree
In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
מְשַׂחֲקִ֖ים
mshchqym
verb · 35×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
צַדִּ֑יק
tsdyq
adjective · 199×
תִּירָ֖א
tyr'
verb · 325×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 21.—Why It is That, as Soon as Cain’s Son Enoch Has Been Named, the Genealogy is Forthwith Continued as Far as the Deluge, While After the Mention of Enos, Seth’s Son, the Narrative Returns Again to the Creation of Man. We must first see why, in the enumeration of Cain’s posterity, after Enoch, in whose name the city was built, has been first of all mentioned, the rest …
Cross-references
- Hos 14:6 — His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
- Hos 14:6 — His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
- Jer 11:16 — The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
- Jer 11:16 — The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
- Ps 1:3 — And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
- Ps 5:7 — But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
- Ps 13:5 — But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
- Ps 13:5 — But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
- Ps 33:18 — Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
- Ps 33:18 — Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
- Ps 91:1 — He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
- Ps 92:12 — The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- Ps 92:12 — The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- Ps 128:3 — Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
- Ps 128:3 — Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
- Ps 147:11 — The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
- Rev 11:4 — These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
- Rom 11:17 — And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
- Rom 11:24 — For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed int