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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Psalms 53

Public-domain commentary by Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown.

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Commentary Notes

2 sections

v1

Psalms 53:1

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.

  • Ps 53 1-Ps 53 6
  • Ps 88 1
  • Ps 14 1-Ps 14 4

v5

Psalms 53:5

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.

  • Ps 14 5
  • Ps 14 6
  • Ps 141 7