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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 53 To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. The word "mahalath" is only used here and in Psalms 88:1. Some, with Aben Ezra, take it to be the first word of a song, to the tune of which this psalm was set; others, with Jarchi, that it is the name of a musical instrument on which it was sung; a hollow instrument; of the same nature with "nehiloth",...
John Gill
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men,.... In Psalms 14:2, it is read, "the Lord" or "Jehovah"; in everything else there is an agreement in this verse; [See comments on Psalms 14:2]; to see if there were [any] that did understand; the Targum is, "that were understanding" in the law; it doubtless means understanding in divine and spiritual things; that did seek God; the above...
Matthew Henry
God speaks once, yea, twice, and it were well if man would even then perceive it; God, in this psalm, speaks twice, for this is the same almost verbatim with the fourteenth psalm. The scope of it is to convince us of our sins, to set us a blushing and trembling because of them; and this is what we are with so much difficulty brought to that there is need of line upon line to this purport. The...