Psalms 53:1
The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.
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Genesis 6:11And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Deuteronomy 12:31Thou shall not do so to LORD thy God. For every abomination to LORD, which he hates, they have done to their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
1 Kings 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which LORD drove out before the sons of Israel.
Job 15:16How much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
Psalms 10:6He says in his heart, I shall not be moved. To all generations I shall not be in adversity.
Psalms 10:13Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require [it]?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 53:1
God speaks once, yea, twice, and it were well if man would even then perceive it; God, in this psalm, speaks twice, for this is the same almost verbatim with the fourteenth psalm. The scope of it is to convince us of our sins, to set us a blushing and trembling because of them; and this is what we are with so much difficulty brought to that there is need of line upon line to this purport. The word, as a convincing word, is compared to a hammer, the strokes whereof must be frequently repeated. God, by the psalmist… Read the whole commentary →