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2God looked down{H8689)} from heaven upon the children of men, to see{H8800)} if there were any that did understand{H8688)}, that did seek{H8802)} God.

Psalms 53:2

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

  • And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

  • When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

  • Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

  • For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

This psalm was opened before, and therefore we shall here only observe, in short, some things concerning sin, in order to the increasing of our sorrow for it and hatred of it. 1. The fact of sin. Isa. that proved? Can the charge be made out? Yes, God is a witness to it, an unexceptionable witness: from the place of his holiness he looks on the children of men, and sees how little good there is amo…

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