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Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Psalms 53

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Psalms53:1-4

PSALM 53

Psa 53:1-6. Upon Mahalath--(See on Psa 88:1, title). Why this repetition of the fourteenth Psalm is given we do not know.

1-4. with few verbal changes, correspond with Psa 14:1-4.

Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Psalms 53:1-4. Public domain.

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Psalms53:5

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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