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Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there were any who did understand, Who did seek after God.
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They have all gone 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 don't call on Yahweh?
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There were they in great fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous.
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You put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because Yahweh is his refuge.
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Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, Then 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.