Psalms 53:1

Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your might. 1

LXX2012 (US English)

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

2O God, hear my prayer; listen to the words of my mouth. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 6:11But the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with iniquity.

Deuteronomy 12:31You shall not do so to your God; for they have sacrificed + 12:31 Gr. in, or, among. to their gods the abominations of the Lord which he hates, for they burn their sons and their daughters in fire to their gods.

1 Kings 14:24And there was a conspiracy in the land, and they did + 14:24 Gr. of. according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed + 14:24 Gr. from the face of. from before the children of Israel.

Job 15:16Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, drinking unrighteousness as a draught.

Psalms 10:6The Lord tries the righteous and the ungodly: and he that loves unrighteousness hates his own soul. 1

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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