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To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good.
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The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, [and] seek God.
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They are all gone aside, they are [all] together become filthy: [there is] none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
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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 poor, because the LORD [is] his refuge.
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.