Psalms 53:4

4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on God?

Psalms 53:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge?
&c.] In ( Psalms 14:4 ) , it is, "have all the workers" There are none of them but what have, unless given up to judicial blindness, and hardness of heart, to believe a lie, as antichrist and his followers, ( 2 Thessalonians 2:10 2 Thessalonians 2:11 ) ; (See Gill on Psalms 14:4);

who eat up my people, [as] they eat bread;
and drink their blood, and are drunken with it, ( Revelation 17:6 ) ;

they have not called upon God;
but upon their idols, upon the Virgin Mary, and saints departed. In ( Psalms 14:4 ) , it is, "upon the Lord".

Psalms 53:4 In-Context

2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there are any who understood, Who seek after God.

3 Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on God?

5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was, For God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, Because God has rejected them.

6 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice. Israel shall be glad.