PSALM 53 (NRSV) – Denunciation of Godlessness

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1 

Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”

They are corrupt, they commit abominable acts;

there is no one who does good.

2 

God looks down from heaven on humankind

to see if there are any who are wise,

who seek after God.

3 

They have all fallen away, they are all alike perverse;

there is no one who does good,

no, not one.

4 

Have they no knowledge, those evildoers,

who eat up my people as they eat bread,

and do not call upon God?

5 

There they shall be in great terror,

in terror such as has not been.

For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly;

they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.

6 

O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion!

When God restores the fortunes of his people,

Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be glad.

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