Psalms 53

Ps 53:1-6.

Upon Mahalath--(See on

Ps 88:1,

title). Why this repetition of the fourteenth Psalm is given we do not

know.

1-4. with few verbal changes, correspond with

Ps 14:1-4.

5. Instead of assurances of God's presence with the pious, and a

complaint of the wicked,

Ps 14:5, 6

portrays the ruin of the latter, whose "bones" even "are scattered"

(compare

Ps 141:7),

and who are put to shame as contemptuously rejected of God.