Psalms 53:1

For the end, among the Hymns of instruction by David,

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

2when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Lo, is not David hidden with us? 1

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Cross References

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

Deuteronomy 12:31Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they have sacrificed 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 according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord removed from before the children of Israel.

Job 15:16Alas then, abominable and unclean is man, 1 Drinking unrighteousness as a draft. 1

Psalms 10:6He shall rain upon sinners snares, 1 Fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup. 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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