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Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
3
They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.
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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people [as] they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.
5
There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous.
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Ye have shamed the counsel of the afflicted, because Jehovah [was] his refuge.
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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When Jehovah turneth again the captivity of his people, Jacob shall be glad, Israel shall rejoice.
To the chief Musician, [a Psalm] of David. The argument of this psalm, according to Theodoret, is Sennacherib's invasion of Judea, when he sent Rabshakeh to Hezekiah, with menaces and curses; upon which Hezekiah implored divine help, and obtained it, and the Assyrian army was destroyed by an angel; of all which he thinks this psalm was prophetic.