Psalm 53:4

4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread! they have not called 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 looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were [any] that did understand, that did seek God.

3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.

4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? 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 [were come] out of Zion! when God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.