Psalm 53:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Fool

Psalm 92:6

Matthew 5:22

Luke 12:20

Said

Psalm 10:4

1 Kings 12:26

Romans 1:21

Have done

There is

Romans 3:10

General references

Jeremiah 17:9

Bible References

Fool

A senseless man [in his crude and uncultivated state] knows nothing,
Nor does a [self-righteous] fool understand this:

But I say to you that everyone who continues to be angry with his brother or harbors malice against him shall be guilty before the court; and whoever speaks [contemptuously and insultingly] to his brother, ‘Raca (You empty-headed idiot)!’ shall be guilty before the supreme court (Sanhedrin); and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of the fiery hell.

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own all the things you have prepared?’

Said

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his face, will not seek nor inquire for Him;
All his thoughts are, “There is no God [so there is no accountability or punishment].”

Jeroboam [doubted God’s promise to him and] said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to the house of David.

For even though they knew God [as the Creator], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks [for His wondrous creation]. On the contrary, they became worthless in their thinking [godless, with pointless reasonings, and silly speculations], and their foolish heart was darkened.

Have done

‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

You shall not behave this way toward the Lord your God, for they have done for their gods every repulsive thing which the Lord hates; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire [as sacrifices] to their gods.

There were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They committed all the repulsive acts of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the Israelites.

Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or behaved in accordance with their pagan practices; but, as if that were too little, you [soon] acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.

for it is disgraceful even to mention the things that such people practice in secret.

For the time already past is [more than] enough for doing what the [unsaved] Gentiles like to do—living [unrestrained as you have done] in a course of [shameless] sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries.

There is

As it is written and forever remains written,

“There is none righteous [none that meets God’s standard], not even one.

General references

“The heart is deceitful above all things
And it is extremely sick;
Who can understand it fully and know its secret motives?