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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 have all turned 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.
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Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When the LORD bringeth back His people from captivity, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad.
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.