Psalms 53:1

“For the leader of the music. To be sung on wind instruments. A psalm of David.” The fool saith in his heart, “There is no God!” They are corrupt; their doings are abominable; There is none that doeth good.

Noyes Bible

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

2God looketh down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any that have understanding, That have regard to God.

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Cross References

Job 15:16Much less, abominable and polluted man, Who drinketh iniquity as water.

Psalms 10:6He saith in his heart, “I shall never fall; I shall never be in adversity.”

Psalms 10:13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, “He careth not for 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 →

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