Passage Research
Psalm 53 — Sermon Preparation
A near-parallel of Psalm 14 — the universal turning from God, the search that finds no one who does good, and a cry for Israel's salvation. Below is a research summary for Psalm 53, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Psalm 53 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| פַּחַד | pachad | H6343 | 2 | alarm |
| טוֹב | ṭôwb | H2896 | 2 | good |
| אָכַל | ʼâkal | H398 | 2 | eat |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 2 | people, tribe |
| אָלַח | ʼâlach | H444 | 1 | muddle, turn |
| מַחֲלַת | machălath | H4257 | 1 | 'Machalath' |
| פָּזַר | pâzar | H6340 | 1 | scatter |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 53, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“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 word, as a convincing word, is compared to a hammer, the strokes whereof must be frequently repeated. God, by the psalmist here, I. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 53:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Zion— Ps 53:6
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