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For the director of music. According to mahalath. A maskil of David.
  1The fool says in his heart,
   “There is no God.”
  They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
   there is no one who does good.

  2God looks down from heaven
   on all mankind
  to see if there are any who understand,
   any who seek God.
  3Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt;
   there is no one who does good,
   not even one.

  4Do all these evildoers know nothing?

  They devour my people as though eating bread;
   they never call on God.
  5But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,
   where there was nothing to dread.
  God scattered the bones of those who attacked you;
   you put them to shame, for God despised them.

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

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大衛的訓誨詩。交給聖詠團長,曲調用「麻哈拉」。

人的邪惡

(詩14)

  1愚頑人心裏說:「沒有上帝。」
   他們都敗壞,行了可憎惡的罪孽,
   沒有一個人行善。

  2上帝從天上垂看世人,
   要看有明白的沒有,
   有尋求上帝的沒有。

  3他們全都退後,一同變為污穢,
   沒有行善的,
   連一個也沒有。

  4作惡的都沒有知識嗎?
   他們吞吃我的百姓如同吃飯一樣,
   並不求告上帝。

  5他們在無可懼怕之處就大大害怕,
   因為上帝使那安營攻擊你之人的骨頭散開了。
   你使他們蒙羞,因為上帝棄絕了他們。
  6但願以色列的救恩出自錫安
  當上帝救回他被擄子民的時候,
   雅各要快樂,以色列要歡喜。