Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 52:5

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.

(i. e.) Totally and unavoidably, as thou didst destroy the Priests.

(i. e.) Violently and Irresistibly and suddenly remove thee, as the Hebrew word signifies.

From thy House and Lands, and all the Wages of thy unrighteousness. Or, out of his (i e. the Lord's) Tabernacle; in which▪ thou didst seek and take the Mattes of thy Slaunders, and from which thou didst cut of the Lords Priests. Therefore God shall Excommunicate thee from his Presence, and from the Society of the Faithful.

Though thou seemest to have taken very deep Rooting, and to be the more firmly settled for this barbarous Cruelty, yet God shall pluck thee up by the very Roots, and destroy thee both Root and Branch.

Out of this World, as the Phrase is taken, Isa. 53. 8. Ezek. 32. 32. and elsewhere. Which was very Terrible to him, who had all his Portion in this World.

Marginal references: Heb. beat thee down.