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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Psalms 53"
description: "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,
corre"
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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](../../../kjv/psalms/14/1-4).

**5.** Instead of assurances of
God's presence with the pious, and a complaint of the wicked, [Psalms 14:5](../../../kjv/psalms/14/5);
[Psalms 14:6](../../../kjv/psalms/14/6) portrays the ruin of the
latter, whose "bones" even "are scattered"
(compare [Psalms 141:7](../../../kjv/psalms/141/7)), and who
are put to shame as contemptuously rejected of God.

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