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Psalm 53 Revised Version with Apocrypha

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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text
  • Protestant, with the Apocrypha
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Notes on this text (1)
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil 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.
1 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.
2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek after God.
2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.
3 Every one of them is gone back; they are together become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
3 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon God.
4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on 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 rejected them.
5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, then shall Jacob rejoice, [and ]Israel shall be glad.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Cross references (6)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 10:4; Psalm 14:1–7; Romans 3:10–31; Luke 12:20; Romans 1:28
  2. 2 Isaiah 55:6; 2 Chronicles 15:2; Jeremiah 16:17; Psalm 27:8; Psalm 111:10
  3. 3 Romans 3:12; Isaiah 64:6; Isaiah 53:6; Psalm 14:3; Jeremiah 8:5–6
  4. 4 Jeremiah 4:22; Jeremiah 10:25; Psalm 27:2; Psalm 94:8; Isaiah 27:11
  5. 5 Proverbs 28:1; Leviticus 26:36; Jeremiah 6:30; Ezekiel 6:5; Psalm 141:7
  6. 6 Jeremiah 30:18; Psalm 14:7; Isaiah 12:6; Psalm 126:1–4; Isaiah 14:32

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LII)

    The title of the Psalm hath: "At the end, understanding of David, when there came Doeg the Edomite and told Saul, David hath come into the house of Abimelech:" whereas we read that he had come into the house of Achimelech.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 53:5 Augustine of Hippo, Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount (Book I, Chapters VII–IX)

    … it is said, "If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ;" and, by the prophet, "They who please men are put to shame, because God hath despised them;" and again, "God hath broken the bones of those who please men;" and again the apostle, "Let us not be desirous of vainglory;" and still another time, …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)

  3. Quotes verse 53:1 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXXI)

    … is again established; "For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light;" and again, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." And what in consequence of this? "They are corrupt, and become abominable in their ways." And again, "The love of money is the root of all evils; which while some …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)