Skip to content- This is Psalm 14 with some minor revisions. David wrote both of the Psalms.
- Mahalath could mean disease. This is indeed a song for the man’s disease: the mortal sin of rejecting God.
- David wrote Ps 14 at his early age, now advance in age, he found no difference in men. Men still reject God.
- The major change is the use of Elohim “God” instead of Jehovah (the God of covenant).
- The major difference is verse 5, in which the psalmist celebrates a military victory over an enemy.
- Possibly revised by the psalmist to fit a new occasion, perhaps the defeat of the Assyrian army in the days of King Hezekiah.
- v1-3 [there is no one that does good, not even one] was quoted by Paul in Romas 3:10.
- The psalmist called the the atheist “fool”. (v1)
- Atheists believe there is no God. They believe that they are living a moral life based on their own standards. But the bible says “There is no one who does good, not even one.” (v3)
- Verse 5: “For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you”. A body to remain unburied was a great disgrace in the ancient Near East, even an executed criminal was supposed to have a decent burial. The Lord despised the arrogance of the Assyrians and put them to open shame.
