Psalm 53

The Folly of the Godless and Salvation for Israel

53For the music director, according to Mahalath.

A maskil of David.^a

¹The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity.

There is none who does good.

²God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind

to see whether there is one who has insight,

one who seeks God.

³All of them^b have turned back.

They are altogether corrupt.

There is none who does good;

there is not even one.

⁴Do not evildoers know,

they who eat my people as though they were eating bread?

They do not call on God.

⁵There they are very fearful^c

where no fear had been,

because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.

You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

⁶Oh, that from Zion^d would come salvation for Israel!

When God returns the fortunes^e of his people,

let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.