For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” Psa 10:4Psa 14:1-7Luk 12:20Rom 3:10-31Rom 1:281Ki 14:24Job 15:16Psa 10:11
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity.
There is no one who does good.
God looks down from heaven on the children of men, Isa 55:62Ch 15:2Jer 16:17Psa 27:8Jer 23:24Psa 111:102Ch 19:3Psa 33:13-14
to see if there are any who understood,
who seek after God.
Every one of them has gone back. Rom 3:12Isa 64:6Isa 53:6Psa 14:3Jer 8:5-63Jn 1:111Jn 2:292Co 7:1
They have become filthy together.
There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Jer 4:22Jer 10:25Psa 27:2Isa 27:11Psa 94:8Mat 23:17-39Rev 17:16
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and don’t call on God?
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, Pro 28:1Lev 26:36Ezk 6:5Jer 6:30Psa 141:7Lev 26:17Psa 83:16-171Sa 14:15
for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
You have put them to shame,
because God has rejected them.
Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! Jer 30:18Psa 14:7Isa 12:6Isa 12:1-3Isa 14:32Neh 12:43Psa 106:46-48Psa 126:1-4
When God brings back his people from captivity,
then Jacob shall rejoice,
and Israel shall be glad.