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.
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.
Psalm 53 Bible Commentary
Jamieson, Faussett, and Brown
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.
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.