Psalm 53:4

4 Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

Psalm 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".

Psalm 53:4 In-Context

2 God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

3 They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.

4 Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

5 There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.

6 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.