Psalm 53, NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION
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1

Fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.”  They are corrupt, they commit abominable acts; there is no one who does good.

2

God looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.
 

3

They have all fallen away, they are all alike perverse; there is no one who does good, no, not one.
 

4

Have they no knowledge, those evildoers, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?
 

5

There they shall be in great terror, in terror such as has not been.  For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.

6

O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion!  When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be glad.