The Fool Says, There Is No God

To the choirmaster. Of David.

¹gThe hfool says in his heart, i“There is no God.”

They are jcorrupt, they do abominable deeds;

kthere is none who does good.

²The Lord llooks down from heaven on the children of man,

to see if there are any who understand,1

who mseek after God.

³They have all turned aside; together they have become ncorrupt;

there is none who does good,

not even one.

⁴Have they no oknowledge, all the evildoers

who peat up my people as they eat bread

and qdo not call upon the Lord?

⁵There they are in great terror,

for God is with rthe generation of the righteous.

⁶You would shame the plans of the poor,

but2 the Lord is his srefuge.

⁷Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!

When the Lord trestores the fortunes of his people,

let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

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