Ps. 53 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm, some few words excepted, is wholly the same with Ps. 14:0, and therefore the reader must resort thither for the interpretation of it.

Mahalath seems to be the name of a musical instrument, or tune; wherein, as in the rest of them, it is better to confess our ignorance, as the Hebrew doctors themselves do, than to give way to vain and groundless conjectures about them. David describeth the atheism and corruption of men, &c.

Where no fear was, i.e. where there was no great nor sufficient cause of fear. See Lev. 26:36, Deut. 28:65, Job 15:21, Prov. 28:1. They who designed to secure themselves from all fear and danger by their contempt of God, and by the persecution of good men, and by other wicked courses, were by those…