Psalm 14

⁴In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

¹For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their ways are vile. There is no one who does good.

¹⁰As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

¹¹There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

²¹For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

²²Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

⁶A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

¹And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

²in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

¹¹There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

⁶And without faith it is impossible to please God. For anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

¹³The Lord looks down from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.

¹⁴From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.

¹⁹For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the Lord gazed out from heaven to earth

²⁰to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,

¹²And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.

¹⁵For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

¹⁰As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.

¹¹There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

⁶We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

⁶Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

²³for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

¹For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

¹³rebelling and denying the Lord, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

¹⁴So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

⁶Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

²⁵Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.

⁵They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

⁷No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.

²⁸Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

⁴Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

²His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.

¹⁵If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.

⁶Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah

¹But now, this is what the Lord says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

²When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.

⁷So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.

¹¹The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah

⁹The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

²How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

¹⁰Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

¹⁰Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the Lord was there,

¹⁰“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

¹¹Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?

¹For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.

⁶Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores His captive people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad!

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. You showed favor to Your land, O Lord; You restored Jacob from captivity.