Psalms 53:1
Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said in his hear t: There is no God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good.
Cross References
Genesis 6:11And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.
Deuteronomy 12:31Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.
1 Kings 14:24There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
Job 15:16How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
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 →