Psalms 53:1
“To the chief musician upon Machalath, a Maskil of David.” (53:2) The worthless fool saith in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and they are abominable [in their] injustice: there is none that doth good.
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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 have they burnt in the fire to their gods.
1 Kings 14:24And sodomites also were in the land: they acted in accordance with all the abominable deeds of the nations which the Lord had driven out before the children of Israel.
Job 15:16How much more then the abominable and corrupt, the man who drinketh like water wrong-doing?
Psalms 10:6He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; I shall be for many generations, and without adversity.
Psalms 10:13For what doth the wicked despise God? [why] doth he say in his heart, Thou wilt not require 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 →