1
The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity.There is no one who does good. +
2
God looks down from
heaven on the children of men,to see if there are any who understood,who seek after God.
3
Every one of them has gone back.They have become filthy together.There is no one who does good, no, not one.
4
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge,who eat up my people as they eat bread,and don't call on God?
5
There they were in great fear, where no fear was,for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.You have put them to shame,because God has rejected them. +
6
Oh that the
salvation of
Israel would come out of Zion!When God brings back his people from captivity,then
Jacob shall rejoice,and Israel shall be glad.
Ps 53:1-6. Upon Mahalath--(See on Ps 88:1, title). Why this repetition of the fourteenth Psalm is given we do not know.
1-4. with few verbal changes, correspond with Ps 14:1-4.