Psalm 14

The Wickedness of Men

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14^* Fools say to themselves,

“There is no God.”

They are all corrupt,

and they have done terrible things;

there is no one who does what is right.

^2*The Lord looks down from heaven at human beings

to see if there are

any who are wise, any who worship him.

^3*But they have all gone wrong;

they are all equally bad. Not one of them does what is right,

not a single one.

⁴“Don’t they know?” asks the Lord.

“Are all these evildoers ignorant?

They live by robbing my people,

and they never pray to me.”

⁵But then they will be terrified,

for God is with those who obey him.

⁶Evildoers frustrate the plans of the humble,

but the Lord is their protection.

⁷How I pray that victory

will come to Israel from Zion.

How happy the people of Israel will be

when the Lord makes them prosperous again!