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To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good.
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The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
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They have all turned aside, They have together become corrupt; There is none who does 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 do not call on the Lord?
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There they are in great fear, For God is with the generation of the righteous.
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You shame the counsel of the poor, But 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.