Psalms 53:1

To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

In Context

2\53:1\The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:11And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

Deuteronomy 12:31Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

1 Kings 14:24And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

Job 15:16How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

Psalms 10:6He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

Psalms 10:13Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for 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 →

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