Psalms 52:5

“God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, etc.] As a just retaliation for the mischief done to others; or, “therefore God shall destroy” f700, etc. even body and soul in hell, with an everlasting destruction, which will be the case of every wicked man, and particularly of the antichristian party, (<661410>Revelation 14:10,11); the word is used of breaking down the house in which the leprosy was, (<031445>Leviticus 14:45); and denotes the utter extinction of Doeg’s family, and the irrecoverable ruin of antichrist, (<661821>Revelation 18:21); he shall take thee away; as fire from the hearth, (<233014>Isaiah 30:14); or as burning coals from the altar: a word from the root here used signifies a…”

“likewise--or, "so," "also," as you have done to others God will do to you (Psa 18:27). The following terms describe the most entire ruin.”

“God shall likewise destroy thee for ever - Margin, “beat thee down.” The Hebrew word means to “tear, to break down, to destroy:” Leviticus 14:45; Judges 6:30. The reference here is not to the “tongue” alluded to in the previous verses, but to Doeg himself. The language in the verse is intensive and emphatic. The main idea is presented in a variety of forms, all designed to denote utter and absolute destruction - a complete and entire sweeping away, so that nothing should be left. The word “here” used would suggest the idea of “pulling down” - as a house, a fence, a wall; that is, the idea of completely “demolishing” it; and the meaning is, that destruction would come upon the informer and…”

“Pluck thee - Violently and suddenly as the Hebrew word signifies, from thy house and lands, and all the wages of thy righteousness. Root - Though thou seemest to have taken deep root, yet God shall pluck thee up by the very roots, and destroy thee both root and branch. Psalms 52:6”

“52:5-7 God’s judgment on the wicked will come suddenly and forcibly. The godly rejoice in God’s justice, not in the misfortunes of the wicked. 52:5 God will strike the wicked down like a pagan altar, idol, or unclean vessel (Exod 34:13; Lev 11:35; 2 Kgs 10:27).”

“God: Psa 7:14-16, Psa 55:23, Psa 64:7-10, Psa 120:2-4, Psa 140:9-11; Pro 12:19, Pro 19:5, Pro 19:9; Rev 21:8 destroy thee: Heb. beat thee down pluck: Psa 37:35, Psa 37:36; Job 18:14, Job 20:6, Job 20:7; Luk 16:27, Luk 16:28 root: Pro 2:22 the land: Psa 27:13, Psa 116:9; Isa 38:11 Psalms 52:6”

“The announcement of the divine retribution begins with גּם as in Isa 66:4; Eze 16:43; Mal 2:9. The אהל is not, as one might suppose, the holy tent or tabernacle, that he has desecrated by making it the lurking-place of the betrayer ( Sa1 21:7), which would have been expressed by מאהלו, but his own dwelling. God will pull him, the lofty and imperious one, down (נתץ, like a tower perhaps, Jdg 8:9; Eze 26:9) from his position of honour and his prosperity, and drag him forth out of his habitation, much as one rakes a coal from the hearth (חתה Biblical and Talmudic in this sense), and tear him out of this his home (נסח, cf. נתק, Job 18:14) and remove him far away ( Deu 28:63), because he has…”