Psalms 53:1
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.
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Genesis 6:11The earth also 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 they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
1 Kings 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
Psalms 10:6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
Psalms 10:13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said 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 →