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; 1
they will be put to shame, 2 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.