For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. ¹ The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good. ² God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there is anyone who understands,
Who seeks after God. ³ Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one. ⁴ Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God? ⁵ There they were in great fear where no fear had been;
For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you;
You put them to shame, because God had rejected them. ⁶ Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores His captive people,
Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.