3 Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.
They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:
And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.
We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.
Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back. I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.
Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.
If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.
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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.