Psalm 53:4

4 Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:

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 looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any that understood, or sought after God.

3 They have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not even one.

4 Will none of the workers of iniquity know, who devour my people as they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. There were they greatly afraid, where there was no fear:

5 or God has scattered the bones of the men-pleasers; they were ashamed, for God despised them.

6 Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Sion? When the Lord turns the captivity of his people, Jacob shall exult, and Israel shall be glad.