Psalms 53:1

(53-1) For the Leader; upon Mahalath. Maschil of David. (53-2) The fool hath said in his heart: 'There is no God'; they have dealt corruptly, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none that doeth good.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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(53-3) God looked forth from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any man of understanding, that did seek after God.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:11And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

Deuteronomy 12:31Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God; for every abomination to the LORD, which He hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn 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 the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.

Job 15:16How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!

Psalms 10:6He saith in his heart: 'I shall not be moved, I who to all generations shall not be in adversity.'

Psalms 10:13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'?

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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