_THE FOOL HATH SAID IN HIS HEART, THERE IS NO GOD. THEY ARE CORRUPT, THEY HAVE DONE ABOMINABLE WORKS, THERE IS NONE THAT DOETH GOOD._ This psalm is probably altered by David from his 53rd Psalm, to fit it for the liturgy of the sanctuary. Hence, he omits whatever in Psalms 53:1 was more fitted for p... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LORD LOOKED DOWN FROM HEAVEN UPON THE CHILDREN OF MEN, TO SEE IF THERE WERE ANY THAT DID UNDERSTAND, AND SEEK GOD._ The Lord looked (looks, Hengstenberg and Chaldaic) down from heaven ... to see if there were any that did understand. Yahweh is not, as unbelievers think, indifferent about man's... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEY ARE ALL GONE ASIDE, THEY ARE ALL TOGETHER BECOME FILTHY: THERE IS NONE THAT DOETH GOOD, NO, NOT ONE._ They are all gone aside - the condition by nature of all without exception: "children of men" (Psalms 14:2). "The generation of the righteous" (Psalms 14:5) also "were by nature the children... [ Continue Reading ]
_HAVE ALL THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY NO KNOWLEDGE? WHO EAT UP MY PEOPLE AS THEY EAT BREAD, AND CALL NOT UPON THE LORD._ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? - expressing wonder at the monstrous folly of the evil-doers. They are awfully blind to their own interest. They are criminally, becaus... [ Continue Reading ]
_THERE WERE THEY IN GREAT FEAR: FOR GOD IS IN THE GENERATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS._ There - in the very place of their sin, their punishment overtakes them. He points to them as though present. WERE THEY IN GREAT FEAR - the prophetical past for the future: implying the certainty of the coming event-l... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE HAVE SHAMED THE COUNSEL OF THE POOR, BECAUSE THE LORD IS HIS REFUGE._ Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor - understand, to accord with the first clause of Psalms 14:5, to which this clause is parallel, therefore ye shall be put to shame yourselves. This is elegantly left to be supplied: so c... [ Continue Reading ]
_OH THAT THE SALVATION OF ISRAEL WERE COME OUT OF ZION! WHEN THE LORD BRINGETH BACK THE CAPTIVITY OF HIS PEOPLE, JACOB SHALL REJOICE, AND ISRAEL SHALL BE GLAD._ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion - literally, 'Who will give from Zion (the Lord's sanctuary) the salvation of Israel... [ Continue Reading ]