John Gill Commentary Psalms 53

The fool has said in his heart, [there is] no God
The Targum adds, "of whom is revenge"; or there is no God to punish and avenge the wicked;

corrupt are they ;
the Chaldee paraphrase is, "the wicked have corrupted their ways"; as all flesh had done in the old world, (Genesis 6:12);

and have done abominable iniquity ;
iniquity is the abominable thing that God hates, and makes men abominable in his sight; in (Psalms 11:1), it is read, "abominable worlds": the Targum paraphrases the words, "they are far from good, for iniquity is found in them"; see (Revelation 21:8Revelation 21:27);

[there is] none that does good; (See Gill on Psalms 14:1).

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men
In (Psalms 14:2) , it is read, "the Lord" or "Jehovah"; in everything else there is an agreement in this verse; (See Gill on Psalms 14:2);

to see if there were [any] that did understand ;
the Targum is, "that were understanding" in the law; it doubtless means understanding in divine and spiritual things;

that did seek God ;
the above paraphrase is, "seeking doctrine from before the Lord".

Every one of them is gone back From God, and the way of his commandments.

In (Psalms 14:3) , it is, "they are all gone aside"; (See Gill on Psalms 14:3);

they are altogether become filthy; [there is] none that does good , no, not one .

What follows in this verse is the same as (Psalms 14:3) .

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge ?
&c.] In (Psalms 14:4) , it is, "have all the workers". All of them have knowledge, 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".

There were they in great, fear, [where] no fear was
Before; neither of God nor man, nor any dread of punishment, but the utmost security, (Revelation 18:7Revelation 18:8Revelation 18:10) ; also (See Gill on Psalms 14:5);

for God has scattered the bones of [him] that encamps [against]
you ;
either against Christ, or against his church and people; who set themselves against the person, office, and grace of Christ, and seek to distress and destroy his interest: "the bones [of such] God will scatter": that is, he will destroy antichrist and his armies, which are his strength, as the bones are the strength of the human body; and make such a carnage of them, that the fowls of the air shall eat their flesh, and their bones shall be scattered here and there; see (Revelation 19:17–21) . So the Targum, ``for God scatters the strength of the armies of the wicked.'' Kimchi interprets it of the bones of the nations that shall encamp against Jerusalem, in the days of Gog; see (Revelation 20:8Revelation 20:9) ; and Aben Ezra observes, that "you" respects either God or the Messiah;

you have put [them] to shame ;
this is either an address of the psalmist unto God, declaring what he had done; or rather of God the Father to his Son Christ Jesus; and so Kimchi and Ben Melech say this refers to the Messiah: and it may be expressive of the shame and confusion that antichrist and his followers will be thrown into, when they shall make war with the Lamb, and he shall overcome them, (Revelation 17:14) ;

because God has despised them ;
or rejected them as reprobates; given them up to a reprobate mind; and being ungodly men, has before ordained them to this condemnation. The Targum is, ``for the Word of the Lord has rejected them;'' as filthy, loathsome, and abominable, and cast them alive into the lake of fire, (Revelation 19:20) .