Psalms 53:1
The impious hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have acted corruptly, They have wrought abominable perversity, There is none that doeth good:—
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Genesis 6:11And the earth corrupted itself before God,—and the earth was filled with violence,
Deuteronomy 12:31Thou shalt not do likewise unto Yahweh thy God,—for everything that is an abomination unto Yahweh which he doth hate, have they done unto their gods, for even their sons and their daughters, do they consume with fire unto their gods.
1 Kings 14:24Moreover also, there were, male devotees, in the land,—they did according to all the abominable practices of the nations, which Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.
Job 15:16How much less when one is detested and corrupt, a man who drinketh in—like water—perversity.
Psalms 10:6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be shaken,—From generation to generation, shall I be in no misfortune.
Psalms 10:13Wherefore hath the lawless one blasphemed 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 →