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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 53:1-6

Psalms 53This psalm is another version of the one that appears in Book 1 as Psalms 14. David wrote it, and "mahalath" is a tune name. One interesting difference between this psalm and Psalms 14 is that this one contains the name Elohim whereas Psalms 14 has Yahweh.". . . Psalms 53’s position between Psalms 52, 54 favors an ancient tradition relating to the life of David. Psalms 52 relates to the story of Doeg (cf. 1 Samuel 22) and Psalms 54 to the incident of the Ziphites (cf. 1 Samuel 23; 1... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 53:2-3

David pictured God looking down from His heavenly habitation and examining human beings individually. Wise people acknowledge God’s presence and pursue Him because He is the source of all goodness and blessing. Fools disregard Him and go their own way. God observed that everyone turns away from Him. The whole race has become sour like milk (Heb. ’alah; cf. Psalms 14:3; Job 10:10; Job 15:16). When people do not use milk for its intended purpose, namely, to drink, it turns sour. Likewise when... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 53:4

The psalmist may have had some specific instance of God’s deliverance in mind, or he may have spoken of His future judgment as having already taken place because of its certainty. God Himself would terrorize and shame His enemies. Evidently David saw God’s people as playing some role in their enemies’ defeat. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 53:4-5

2. Anticipation of judgment 53:4-5 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 53:6

3. Yearning for God’s reign 53:6David longed for the time when God would initiate salvation for Israel from Zion. When he wrote, Israel was at least partially under a hostile foreign power’s control. The psalmist believed God would one day restore His people and cause them to rejoice. Because of other revelation, we know that when Jesus Christ comes back to reign He will reestablish Israel as His favored nation and will punish her enemies (cf. Psalms 2; Isaiah 27:12; Isaiah 43:5-7; Jeremiah... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 53:1-6

This is a second version of Psalms 14 with the important difference that God (Elohim) is everywhere substituted for the Lord (Jehovah). There are a few other variations and additions, especially in Psalms 53:5 (= Psalms 14:5-6). The changes are interesting chiefly as an illustration of the process of editing which was applied to many Pss. and many portions of the OT., and in particular of the consistent preferences, on the part of separate writers, for one divine name rather than... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 53:1

(1) And.—The conjunction is wanting in Psalms 14:1.Iniquity.—Instead of the general term, “doings,” in Psalms 14:0, as if the adapter of the Psalm felt that a word applicable to good as well as evil was not strong enough to express the hideousness of the profanity. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 53:3

(3) There are two unimportant variations from Psalms 14:0 here: “every one,” instead of “the whole,” and “gone back” (sag) for “gone aside” (sar). read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 53:4

(4) Notice the omission of the expressive “all” found in Psalms 14:0 read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 53:5

(5) Where no fear was.—This—the most interesting variation from Psalms 14:0—appears plainly to have been inserted to bring the Psalm into harmony with some circumstance belonging to the time for which it was adapted, but to which we have no clue. As to the choice among the various explanations that have been given of it, we must remark that the one which takes “fear” in a good sense (“Then were they in great fright where there was no fear of God”) is excluded by the fact that the same word is... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 53:1-6

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 53:2-3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 53:4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 53:4-5

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Psalms 53:6

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 53:1-6

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 53:1

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 53:3

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 53:4

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Psalms 53:5

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