John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 53:1

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The fool hath said in his heart, [there is] no God, etc.] The Targum adds, “of whom is revenge”; or there is no God to punish and avenge the wicked; corrupt are they; the Chaldee paraphrase is, “the wicked have corrupted their ways”; as all flesh had done in the old world, (<010612>Genesis 6:12); and have done abominable iniquity; iniquity is the abominable thing that God hates, and makes men abominable in his sight; in (<191101>Psalm 11:1), it is read, “abominable worlds”: the Targum paraphrases the words, “they are far from good, for iniquity is found in them”; (see <662108>Revelation 21:8,27); [there is] none that doeth good; (see Gill on “<191401>Psalm 14:1”).

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