Psalms 53

¹For the music director, according to Mahalath. A maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good. ²God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God. ³⌞All of them⌟ have turned back. They are altogether corrupt. There is none who does good; there is not even one. ⁴Do not evildoers know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on God. ⁵There ⌞they are very fearful⌟ where no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. ⁶⌞Oh, that from Zion⌟ would come salvation for Israel! When God returns the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.