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There Is None Who Does Good

To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil^[a] of David.

 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
   They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;
   there is none who does good.

² God looks down from heaven
on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand,^[b]
who seek after God.

³ They have all fallen away;
together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.

⁴ Have those who work evil no knowledge,
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and do not call upon God?

⁵ There they are, in great terror,
where there is no terror!
For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you;
you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.

⁶ Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores the fortunes of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 53:1 Probably musical or liturgical terms
2. Psalm 53:2 Or who act wisely

Cross references:

1. Psalm 53:1 : Ps. 88, title
2. Psalm 53:1 : For ver. 1-6, see Ps. 14:1-7
3. Psalm 53:5 : [Lev. 26:17, 36; Prov. 28:1]
4. Psalm 53:5 : Ps. 89:10; 141:7; Jer. 8:1, 2; Ezek. 6:5