KJV King James Version
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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Psalm 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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,
Surrounding context — Psalm 52
5 God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of [thy] dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
7 Lo, [this is] the man [that] made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, [and] strengthened himself in his wickedness.
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.
9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done [it]: and I will wait on thy name; for [it is] good before thy saints.
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Psalm 92:12-14The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.Hosea 14:6-8His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.Psalm 1:3And 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.Psalm 13:5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.Jeremiah 11:16The 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.Romans 11:24For 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 into their own olive tree?Psalm 147:11The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.Psalm 33:18Behold, the eye of the LORD [is] upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;Psalm 128:3Thy wife [shall be] as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
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