Psalms 53:3
Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me in your virtue.
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In Context
2when the Ziphites had arrived and they said to Saul, “Has not David been hidden with us?”
4O God, listen to my prayer. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
Cross References
Job 15:16How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?
Isaiah 53:6We have all gone astray like sheep; each one has turned aside to his own way. And the Lord has placed all our iniquity upon him.
Jeremiah 8:5Then why have this people in Jerusalem turned away with a contentious loathing? They have taken hold of what is false, and they are not willing to return.
Zephaniah 1:6both those who turn aside from following after the Lord, and those who have not sought the Lord, nor inquired about him.
2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, having these promises, most beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.
3 John 1:11Most beloved, do not be willing to imitate what is evil; instead imitate what is good. Whoever does good is of God. Whoever does evil has not seen God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 53:2-6
Human Depravity. 1 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. 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God. 5 There were… Read the whole commentary →