1 The [empty-headed] fool has said in his heart, "There is no God."

They are corrupt and evil, and have committed repulsive injustice;

There is no one who does good.

2 God has looked down from heaven upon the children of men

To see if there is anyone who understands,

Who seeks after God [who requires Him, who longs for Him as essential to life].

3 Every one of them has turned aside and fallen away;

Together they have become filthy and corrupt;

There is no one who does good, no, not even one. [Rom 3:10-12]

4 Have workers of wickedness no knowledge or no understanding?

They eat up My people as though they ate bread

And have not called upon God.

5 There they were, in great terror and dread, where there had been no terror or dread;

For God scattered the bones of him who besieged you;

You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

6 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!

When God restores [the fortunes of] His people,

Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.