Psalms 53 · Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
PSALM 53 Psa 53:1-6 . Upon Mahalath--(See on Psa 88:1 , title). Why this repetition of the fourteenth Psalm is given we do not know. 1-4. with few verbal changes, correspond with Psa 14:1-4 .
5. Instead of assurances of God's presence with the pious, and a complaint of the wicked, Psa 14:5 , 6 portrays the ruin of the latter, whose "bones" even "are scattered" (compare Psa 141:7 ), and who are put to shame as contemptuously rejected of God.