53
Psalm 53 · Book Two · David
For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible
Maskil · For the choirmaster
About this psalm
Almost word for word the same psalm as 14, set to a different tune and with a different name for God running through it. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Whoever collected the Psalter kept both. That is worth noticing: the book is not tidy, and a thing worth saying was allowed to be said twice.
Read it beside Psalm 14 and see what changed.
One verse at a time, slowly
1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity:there is none that doeth good.2God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.3Every one of them is gone back:they are altogether become filthy;there is none that doeth good, no, not one.4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread:they have not called upon God.5There were they in great fear, where no fear was:for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee:thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.6Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
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