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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 no one that does good, no, not one.
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The workers of iniquity certainly know this; those who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD.
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There they were in great fear: for God is with the nation of the righteous.
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Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor because the LORD is his hope.
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Oh that the saving health of Israel were come out of Zion! When the LORD turns back the captivity of his people, 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.