1
To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good.
2
The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God.
3
They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.
4
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?
5
There they shall be in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.
6
You would confound the plans 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.
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