George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 14:2
Justice. These two things characterize the true Israelites. (Calmet) --- We must avoid sin, and do good, in thought, word and deed, ver. 3. (Worthington)
Justice. These two things characterize the true Israelites. (Calmet) --- We must avoid sin, and do good, in thought, word and deed, ver. 3. (Worthington)
Verse Psalms 14:2. _THE LORD LOOKED DOWN FROM HEAVEN_] Words spoken after the manner of men. From this glorious eminence God is represented as looking down upon the habitable globe, _to see if there w...
THE LORD LOOKED DOWN FROM HEAVEN - The original word here - שׁקף _shâqaph_ - conveys the idea of “bending forward,” and hence, of an intense and anxious looking, as we bend forward when we wish to ex...
Psalms 14 _ 1. The days of Noah repeated (Psalms 14:1)_ 2. Salvation and glory (Psalms 14:7) Psalms 14:1. As it was in the days of Noah so shal
PSA 14. and 53. This Ps. occurs twice in the Psalter, and an examination of the double form in which we have it, is important for the light it throws on the value of MT. It proves that the text presen...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. Figure of speech _Epanadiplosis_ (App-6). The verse beginning and ending with "Jehovah" (see note on "GOD", Psalms 14:1). Psalm not for public use: but for David's...
The universal depravity of mankind, and its cause....
For a while Jehovah as it were overlooked the growing corruption. At length He -looked down" (Psalms 33:13-14). So in the yet simpler language of the Pentateuch He is said to have -come down to see" t...
THE LORD LOOKED DOWN, &C.— These, and the following words, as to the sense of them, are taken from Genesis 6:5. They are here used in confutation of the profane and Epicurean ideas of those who denied...
PSALMS 14 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Vile Person's Testimony to Prevalent Wickedness, when confirmed by Jehovah, occasions Warning and Prayer. ANALYSIS Stanza I. (Psalms 14:1), An Impious Man revels in Wi...
_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...
This Ps., like Psalms 12, gives a picture of a corrupt state of society in which God is ignored, and His people are oppressed. David's authorship is not absolutely disproved by Psalms 14:7, which some...
THE LORD LOOKED DOWN] cp. Genesis 6:5; Genesis 11:5; Genesis 18:21, where similar figures describe God's perception of the wickedness of men in the primitive world....
Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...
LOOKED DOWN. — Literally, _bent forward to look as from a window._ (Comp. Song of Solomon 6:10.) DID UNDERSTAND. — Better, _any man of understanding,_ in contrast with “fool,” in Psalms 14:1, and cert...
יְֽהוָ֗ה מִ שָּׁמַיִם֮ הִשְׁקִ֪יף עַֽל ־בְּנֵי...
Psalms 14:1 THIS psalm springs from the same situation as Psalms 10:1; Psalms 12:1. It has several points of likeness to both. It resembles the former in its attribution to "the fool" of the heart spe...
THE BOUNTY OF GOD AND THE FOLLY OF MEN Psalms 13:1; Psalms 14:1 The first of these psalms evidently dates from the Sauline persecutions, 1 Samuel 19:1. Four times the persecuted soul cries, _How long...
Here the psalmist utters his own consciousness of the meaning of godlessness. In its essence it is folly. The word "fool" here stands for moral perversity rather than intellectual blindness. This is r...
It would have been some alleviation of our ruin, had the deadly sin been only here and there in certain instances, or even general in many instances: but when by the divine inquiry we find that the di...
2._Jehovah looked down from heaven. _God himself is here introduced as speaking on the subject of human depravity, and this renders the discourse of David more emphatic than if he had pronounced the s...
In Psalms 14 the evil has reached its climax in God's sight What is ever true of flesh is now brought up under God's eye at the time when He is going to judge. Man rises up in pride before Him: yea, H...
THE LORD LOOKED DOWN FROM HEAVEN UPON THE CHILDREN OF MEN,.... As he did when all flesh had corrupted its way, and before he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly, Genesis 6:12. This is said i...
_The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God._ Ver. 2. _The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men_] As oppo...
_The Lord looked down from heaven_ God knows all things without any inquiry: but he speaks after the manner of men. _Upon the children of men_ Upon the whole Israelitish nation, and upon all mankind;...
The Lord looked down from heaven, bowing forward for the purpose of examining very closely, UPON THE CHILDREN OF MEN, TO SEE IF THERE WERE ANY THAT DID UNDERSTAND, if any of the sons of Adam, any memb...
OF THE CORRUPTION OF NATURAL MAN AND THE LORD'S SALVATION. This psalm may well have been composed at the time when David was specially impressed with the wickedness of men, when he felt the oppression...
THE LORD LOOKED DOWN FROM HEAVEN, to search out the truth. God knoweth all things without any inquiry; but this is a figure called anthropopathia, whereby Scripture oft speaks of God after the manner...
Psalms 14:2 LORD H3068 down H8259 (H8689) heaven H8064 children H1121 men H120 see H7200 (H8800) there...
‘YHWH looked down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, that did seek after God. They are all gone aside; They are together become morally corrupt, There...
Psalms 14:1. _The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ He was a fool to think it. He was not fool enough, however, to say it except in his heart. Fools have grown more brazen-faced of late;...
CONTENTS: The corruption and foolishness of man. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Man in his natural state has become odious to God, utterly incapable of answering the ends of his creation, until...
Psalms 14:1. _The fool,_ the _Nabal,_ devoid of foresight, says, _there is no God;_ no governor, no providence, no judge. The happiness of man, like that of the brute, consists in the gratification of...
_The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God._ THE PRACTICAL DENIAL OF GOD THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL The heavy fact of widespread corruption presses on the Psalmist, and starts a train of thought whi...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 14:1. This is a community lament. Humans in general do not seek after God and thus they treat God’s people cruelly. Compare Psalms 53:1.
INTRODUCTION “It does not appear upon what occasion David composed this psalm. The revolt of Israel in Absalom’s rebellion is by most writers pitched upon as the subject of it. But be this as it may,...
EXPOSITION IT has been strongly argued, from the mention of the "captivity" of God's people in Psalms 14:7, that this psalm was written during the sojourn in Babylon, and therefore not by David (De We...
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. The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if...
2 Chronicles 19:3; 2 Chronicles 30:19; Daniel 12:10; Genesis 11:5;...
Looked — God knoweth all things without any enquiry: but he speaks after the manner of men. Upon — Upon the whole Israelitish nation, and upon all mankind for he speaks of all except his people, and t...