1To the Overseer. -- 'On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.
2God from the heavens looked on the sons of men, To see if there be an understanding one, 'One' seeking God.
3Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good -- not even one.
4Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.
5There they feared a fear -- there was no fear, For God hath scattered the bones of him Who is encamping against thee, Thou hast put to shame, For God hath despised them.
6Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When God turneth back 'to' a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice -- Israel is glad!
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Psalms 53
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…
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