--- title: "Psalms 53 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Psalms 53 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 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. 2 God looked down" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/psalms/53" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/53)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/53)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/53) Audio 1 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.* 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were *any* that did understand, that did seek God. 3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; *there is* none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people *as* they eat bread: they have not called upon God. 5 There were they in great fear, *where* no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth *against* thee: thou hast put *them* to shame, because God hath despised them.* 6 Oh that the salvation of Israel *were come* out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, *and* Israel shall be glad.* [Psalms 52](/study/psalms/52) [Psalms 54](/study/psalms/54) ## Commentary To verse 1 [Psalms 53:0](/kjv/psalms/53/0). *David describeth the corruption of a natural man: he convinceth the wicked by the light of their own conscience: he glorieth in the salvation of God.* To the chief musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, *A Psalm*of David. *Title.*לדוד משׂכיל מחלת על למנצח *lamnatseach al machalath maskiil ledavid.*] The occasion of this Psalm, which varies but little from the 14th, and for which variation it is not easy to account, is supposed to have been the next revolt which the Israelites in general made immediately after the rebellion of Absalom, before David had quite recovered Jerusalem, and upon the quarrel which arose between the men of Judah and the men of Israel about precedency in bringing back the king; when Sheba blew the trumpet of rebellion afresh; and, it is said, every man of Israel left David. See [2 Samuel 20:2](/kjv/2-samuel/20/2). מחלת על *al machalath, Upon Mahalath,*is rendered by some, *Upon the hollow instruments;*and by Houbigant, *Upon the chorus.*Mudge says, *Mahalath*is probably a kind of music, denominated from a song, in which was that word; which signifies a *malady*or *illness;*designed, if one may guess from [Psalms 88:0](/kjv/psalms/88/0) to raise in the mind a melancholy, or sort of pensive gloominess. Fenwick is nearly of the same opinion. See his *Thoughts,*p. 57. The Syriac title informs us, that the Psalm was occasioned by Achitophel's advising Absalom to pursue David, and put him to death: but, with respect to Christians, it intimates the revelation of our Saviour, and deliverance from atheistic people. There was, most probably, more of it in the original Syriac copy. 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