Psalms 53:1
Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David,
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In Context
2when the Ziphites had arrived and they said to Saul, “Has not David been hidden with us?”
Cross References
Genesis 6:11Yet the earth was corrupted before the eyes of God, and it was filled with iniquity.
Deuteronomy 12:31You shall not act in like manner toward the Lord your God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations that the Lord spurns, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.
1 Kings 14:24Moreover, the effeminate were in the land, and they committed all the abominations of the peoples that the Lord had destroyed before the face of the sons of Israel.
Job 15:16How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?
Psalms 10:6The Lord questions the just and the impious. Yet he who loves iniquity, hates his own soul.
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 →