2 God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.
But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.
The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.
Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.
And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men; From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;
For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.
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Commentary on Psalms 53 Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
PSALM 53
Ps 53:1-6. Upon Mahalath—(See on Ps 88:1, title). Why this repetition of the fourteenth Psalm is given we do not know.
1-4. with few verbal changes, correspond with Ps 14:1-4.
5. Instead of assurances of God's presence with the pious, and a complaint of the wicked, Ps 14:5, 6 portrays the ruin of the latter, whose "bones" even "are scattered" (compare Ps 141:7), and who are put to shame as contemptuously rejected of God.