Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary
Psalms 53
Public-domain commentary by Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown.
Commentary Notes
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 6Ps 88 1Ps 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 5Ps 14 6Ps 141 7