For the Chief Musician. By David.

• ¹The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
• They are corrupt.
• They have done abominable works.
• There is none who does good.

• ²Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men,
• to see if there were any who understood,
• who sought after God.

• ³They have all gone aside.
• They have together become corrupt.
• There is none who does good, no, not one.

• ⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
• who eat up my people as they eat bread,
• and don’t call on Yahweh?

• ⁵There they were in great fear,
• for God is in the generation of the righteous.

• ⁶You frustrate the plan of the poor,
• because Yahweh is his refuge.

• ⁷Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
• When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people,
• then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.