Psalm 14

The Fool Says, There Is No God

14To the choirmaster. Of David.

^1gThe ^hfool says in his heart, ⁱ“There is no God.”

They are ^jcorrupt, they do abominable deeds;

^kthere is none who does good.

²The Lord ^llooks down from heaven on the children of man,

to see if there are any who understand,¹

who ^mseek after God.

³They have all turned aside; together they have become ⁿcorrupt;

there is none who does good,

not even one.

⁴Have they no ^oknowledge, all the evildoers

who ^peat up my people as they eat bread

and ^qdo not call upon the Lord?

⁵There they are in great terror,

for God is with ^rthe generation of the righteous.

⁶You would shame the plans of the poor,

but² the Lord is his ^srefuge.

⁷Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!

When the Lord ^trestores the fortunes of his people,

let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.