Psalms 53:4

4 Have those who work evil no understanding, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon 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 upon the sons of men to see if there are any that are wise, that seek after God.

3 They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved; there is none that does good, no, not one.

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

5 There they are, in great terror, in terror such as has not been! For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.

6 O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad.