Psalms 53:1
For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
Cross References
Genesis 6:11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
Deuteronomy 12:31You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
1 Kings 14:24There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
Psalms 10:6He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
Psalms 10:13Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
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 →