. Upon Mahalath—(See on , title). Why this repetition of the fourteenth Psalm is
given we do not know.
1-4. with few verbal changes,
correspond with Psalms 14:1-4.
5. Instead of assurances of
God's presence with the pious, and a complaint of the wicked, Psalms 14:5;
Psalms 14:6 portrays the ruin of the
latter, whose "bones" even "are scattered"
(compare Psalms 141:7), and who
are put to shame as contemptuously rejected of God.
PSALM 53
. Upon Mahalath—(See on , title). Why this repetition of the fourteenth Psalm is given we do not know.
1-4. with few verbal changes, correspond with Psalms 14:1-4.
5. Instead of assurances of God's presence with the pious, and a complaint of the wicked, Psalms 14:5; Psalms 14:6 portrays the ruin of the latter, whose "bones" even "are scattered" (compare Psalms 141:7), and who are put to shame as contemptuously rejected of God.