Jamieson, Fausset & Brown's Commentary
Commentary on Psalms 53
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown's verse-by-verse commentary on Psalms 53, from Commentary Critical and Explanatory. Read it alongside the full text of the chapter.
Verse 5
Instead of assurances of God's presence with the pious, and a complaint of the wicked, Psa 14:5-6 portrays the ruin of the latter, whose "bones" even "are scattered" (compare Psa 141:7), and who are put to shame as contemptuously rejected of God.
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Upon Mahalath--(See on Psa 88:1, title). Why this repetition of the fourteenth Psalm is given we do not know. (Psa 53:1-6)
with few verbal changes, correspond with Psa 14:1-4.