Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 53

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Verses 1-6

PSALM 53

Ps 53:1-6. Upon Mahalath—(See on Ps 88:1, title). Why this repetition of the fourteenth Psalm is given we do not know.

1-4. with few verbal changes, correspond with Ps 14:1-4.

Verses 2-5

5. Instead of assurances of God's presence with the pious, and a complaint of the wicked, Ps 14:5, 6 portrays the ruin of the latter, whose "bones" even "are scattered" (compare Ps 141:7), and who are put to shame as contemptuously rejected of God.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory (1871). Public domain.