(A)Everyone is gone back: they are altogether corrupt: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

Do not the [a]workers of iniquity know that they eat up my people as they eat bread? they call not upon God.

There they were afraid for fear, where no [b]fear was: for God hath scattered the [c]bones of him that besieged thee: thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath cast them off.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 53:4 David pronounceth God’s vengeance against cruel governors, who having charge to defend and preserve God’s people, do most cruelly devour them.
  2. Psalm 53:5 When they thought there was none occasion to fear, the sudden vengeance of God lighted upon them.
  3. Psalm 53:5 Be the enemy’s power never so great, nor the danger so fearful, yet God delivereth his in due time.

Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt;
    there is no one who does good,
    not even one.(A)

Do all these evildoers know nothing?

They devour my people as though eating bread;
    they never call on God.
But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,
    where there was nothing to dread.(B)
God scattered the bones(C) of those who attacked you;(D)
    you put them to shame,(E) for God despised them.(F)

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