Psalms 53:4

4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge--those who eat up my people as they eat bread? They have not called 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 looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that understood, that had sought God.

3 Every one of them has turned back; they have altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge--those who eat up my people as they eat bread? They have not called upon God.

5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was; for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee; thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

6 O that the salvation of Israel might come out of Zion! When God bringeth back His captive people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad.