Psalm 53 - Overcomer - upon Mahalath, The fool said in his heart

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Here the tune is chosen for the musician, probably some mournfully solemn air; or perhaps a musical instrument is here indicated, ...; at any rate, this is a direction not found in the former copy of the Psalm, and seems to call for greater care. The word "Mahalath" appears to signify, in some forms of it, "disease, "and truly this Psalm is THE SONG OF MAN'S DISEASE— the mortal, hereditary taint of sin. - Charles Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> This Psalm is a Maschil psalm, giving understanding. Psalm 14 does not say that it is a Maschil.</div> <bR> <div> Maschil. This is a second additional note not found in Psalm 14, indicating that double attention is to be given to this most instructive song. </div> <div> A Psalm of David. It is not a copy of the fourteenth Psalm, emended and revised by a foreign hand; it is another edition by the same author, emphasised in certain parts, and rewritten for another purpose. </div> <div> David after a long life, found men no better than they were in his youth. Holy Writ never repeats itself needlessly, there is good cause for the second copy of this Psalm; let us read it with more profound attention than before. - Charles Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> All the instances of the name of God "Jehovah" in Ps 14, that is vv 2, 4 & 6 are changed to "Elohim", meaning "God", in Ps 53. </div> <div> Other differences are noted in the verse notes.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>v1</B></A><B> </B>- Psam 14 says "they have done an abominable deed" without the preceeding "and".</div> <div> No God, being interpreted, means no law, no order, no restraint to lust, no limit to passion. Who but a fool would be of this mind? What a Bedlam, or rather what an <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#act1_18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">Aceldama</A>, would the world become if such lawless principles came to be universal! He who heartily entertains an irreligious spirit, and follows it out to its legitimate issues is a son of <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#2co6_15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">Belial</A>, dangerous to the commonwealth, irrational, and despicable. - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> Corrupt are they. They are rotten. It is idle to compliment them as sincere doubters, and amiable thinkers—they are putrid. There is too much dainty dealing nowadays with atheism; it is not a harmless error, it is an offensive, putrid sin, and righteous men should look upon it in that light. - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> Those who talk so abominably as to deny their Maker will act abominably when it serves their turn. It is the abounding denial and forgetfulness of God among men which is the source of the unrighteousness and crime which we see around us. If all men are not outwardly vicious it is to be accounted for by the power of other and better principles, but left to itself the "No God" spirit so universal in mankind would produce nothing but the most loathsome actions. - Spurgeon</div> <bR> <div> The one typical fool is reproduced in the whole race; without a single exception men have forgotten the right way. This accusation twice made in the Psalm, and repeated a third time by the inspired apostle Paul, is an indictment most solemn and sweeping, but he who makes it cannot err, he knows what is in man; neither will he lay more to man's charge than he can prove. -Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>v2</B></A><B> </B>- When Paul quotes this verse and the following verse in <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#rom3_10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">Rom 3:10-12</A>, he says there is none that understands or seeks God, which is the meaning, but not exactly what the Hebrew or LXX text says.</div> <bR> <div> How could human beings find God if they don't seek Him? Later in Romans Paul quotes Isaiah 65:1 which says that God has been found by those who were not seeking Him (<A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#rom10_20" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">Rom 10:20</A>) - Rex Beck</div> <bR> <div> God looked down from heaven upon the children of men. He did so in ages past, and he has continued his steadfast gaze from his all surveying observatory.</div> <div> Those pure heathens and admirable savages that men talk so much of, do not appear to have been visible to the eye of Omniscience, the fact being that they live nowhere but in the realm of fiction. The Lord did not look for great grace, but only for sincerity and right desire, but these he found not. He saw all nations, and all men in all nations, and all hearts in all men, and all motions of all hearts, but he saw neither a clear head nor a clean heart among them all. Where God's eyes see no favourable sign we may rest assured there is none. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>v3</B></A><B> - </B>Ps 14 says "The whole have turned aside" instead of "All of them have turned backward" in Ps 53.</div> <bR> <div> In the fourteenth Psalm it was said to turn aside, which was bad enough, but here it is described as running in a diametrically opposite direction.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#1co5_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">The whole lump is soured with an evil leaven</A>, - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>v4</B></A><B> -</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#330099" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#336600" FACE="Arial" >They have no wisdom, certainly, but even so common a thing as knowledge might have restrained them. Can they not see that there is a God? that sin is an evil thing? that persecution recoils upon a man's own head? Are they such utter fools as not to know that they are their own enemies, and are ruining themselves?</FONT></div> <div> The carnal mind envies those who obtain mercy, and yet it will not seek mercy itself. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>v5 </B></A>- Ps 14 has "In that place they were terrified" but does not have the following phrase, "Terror did not come to be." Then both psalms have a "because" clause: Ps 14 says "because God is in the generation of the just". That gives the reason that the workers of iniquity are terrified.  Ps 53 says "because God scattered the bones ...", giving the reason why terror did not materialize.</div> <div> Ps 14 goes on to say "you (plural, the workers of iniquity) have shamed the counsel of the poor because Jehovah is his refuge.</div> <div> Ps 53 says "You (singular, him who was encamped against) put to shame because God despised them (the workers of iniquity).</div> <bR> <div> In this sentence and this verse, this Psalm differs much from the fourteenth. It is evidently expressive of a higher state of realisation in the poet, he emphasises the truth by stronger expressions. Without cause the wicked are alarmed. He who denies God is at bottom a coward, and in his infidelity he is like the boy in the churchyard who "whistles to keep his courage up."</div> <div> God's people may well look with derision upon their enemies since they are the objects of divine contempt. - Spurgeon<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" >. </FONT></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>v6</B></A><B> -</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" > In Ps 14 it is "salvation" (singular) of Israel. Here it is plural.</FONT></div> <div> ref.<A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#rom8_18" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "> Rom 8:18-23</A>; <A HREF="psalm_53_m.htm#rom11_15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">11:15,25-35</A></div> <bR> <div> The second advent and the restoration of Israel are our hope and expectation. We have attempted to throw into rhyme the last two verses of this Psalm:</div> <div> The foes of Zion quake for fright. </div> <div> Where no fear was they quail;</div> <div>  For well they know that sword of might </div> <div> Which cuts through coats of mail. </div> <bR> <div> The Lord of old defiled their shields, </div> <div> And all their spears he scorned; </div> <div> Their bones lay scattered over the fields, </div> <div> Unburied and unmourned. </div> <bR> <div> Let Zion's foes be filled with shame; </div> <div> Her sons are blessed of God; </div> <div> Though scoffers now despise their name, </div> <div> The Lord shall break the rod. </div> <bR> <div> Oh! would our God to Zion turn, </div> <div> God with salvation clad; </div> <div> Then Judah's harps should music learn, </div> <div> And Israel be glad. - Spurgeon. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Psalm 53 </B>For the <A HREF="psalms_overcomer.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalms practical details of the Godman ">Overcomer</A>. Upon Mahalath. <A HREF="psalm_32_maschil.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalm 32 giving understanding Blessed ">Giving understanding </A>through David: </div> <bR> <div> <I>(tune Where have all the flowers gone? by Pete Seeger :)</I></div> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-1170/Where_Have_All_the_Flowers_Gone__InstrumentalTrim.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </div> <div> audio file from <A HREF="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqihC1QnnKY&list=RDnqihC1QnnKY&start_radio=1" TARGET="_top" TITLE="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqihC1Qn">youtube</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >1 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">1</A>  The fool has said in his heart,</div> <div> "There is no <I>living </I>God."</div> <div> They have corrupted themselves,</div> <div> and injustice</div> <div> they have done abominably.</div> <div> There is no one doing good.</div> <div>  <I> <A NAME="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">2</A> God looked down from heaven</div> <div> upon the sons of men,</div> <bR> <div> 2<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > to see if there were any,</FONT></div> <div> <I>any </I>that understand,</div> <div> <I>any </I>that are seeking God</div> <div>  <A NAME="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v3" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">3</A> Each one of them </div> <div> have turned backward together,</div> <div> <I>together </I>became corrupt.</div> <div> There's not one doing good.</div> <div> There is not even one.</div> <div>  <A NAME="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >3 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">4</A> Workers of iniquity,</div> <div> do they have no knowledge?</div> <div> Those eating <I>up </I>My people,</div> <div> they eat <I>up </I>bread.</div> <div> Upon God they do not call,</div> <div> <I> <A NAME="5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">5</A>  in that place were terrified.</div> <div> <I>Terror came not to be.</I></div> <div> Terror came not to be</div> <bR> <div> 4 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >because God scattered the bones</FONT></div> <div> of him encamped 'gainst you.</div> <div> You have put to shame because</div> <div> God despised them.</div> <div>  <A NAME="6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The ">6</A> Who will give out from Zion</FONT></div> <div> the salvations of Israel?</div> <div> When God turneth again</div> <div> His people's captivity,</div> <bR> <div> 5 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>captive </I>Jacob shall rejoice</FONT></div> <div> <I>and be no longer sad,</I></div> <div> Israel <I>shall lift up the voice</I></div> <div> and shall be glad.</div> <div> <I>Creation shall be set free</I></div> <div> <I>from the bonds of vanity</I></div> <div> <I>How deep is God's wisdom?</I></div> <div> <I>Who's known the mind of God?</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>------------------</I></div> <div> <B> <A NAME="act1_18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>Acts 1:18</B></A><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "> </A>(This man then indeed got a field with the reward of iniquity, and, having fallen down headlong, burst in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.</div> <div> 19 And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect <B>Aceldama</B>; that is, field of blood.)</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="2co6_15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>2Corinthians 6:15</B></A> What accord has Christ with <B>Belial</B>? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?</div> <div> 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.</div> <div> 17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,</div> <div> 18 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty."</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="rom3_10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>Romans 3:10</B></A> according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;</div> <div>  11 <B>there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.</B></div> <div>  12 All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="rom10_20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>Romans 10:20</B></A> But Isaiah is very bold, and says, I have been found by those not seeking me; I have become manifest to those not inquiring after me.</div> <div>  21 But unto Israel he says, All the day long I have stretched out my hands unto a people disobeying and opposing.</div> <div> Isaiah 65:1  I am sought out of them that inquired not for me, I am found of them that sought me not; I have said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.</div> <div>  2 I have stretched out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way not good, after their own thoughts;</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="1co5_6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v3" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>1Corinithians 5:6</B></A> Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="rom8_18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>Romans 8:18</B></A> For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.</div> <div>  19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.</div> <div>  20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope</div> <div>  21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.</div> <div>  22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.</div> <div>  23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="rom11_15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_53_l.htm#v6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 53 Overcomer upon Mahalath, The "><B>11:15 </B></A>For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?</div> <div> 25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery, lest you be wise in your own estimation, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles has come in;</div> <div>  26 and thus all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob."</div> <div>  27 "And this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins."</div> <div>  28 From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God's choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;</div> <div>  29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.</div> <div>  30 For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,</div> <div>  31 so these also now have been disobedient, in order that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.</div> <div>  32 For God has shut up all in disobedience that He might show mercy to all.</div> <div>  33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!</div> <div>  34 For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?</div> <div>  35 Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again?</div> <div>  36 For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>