1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good. 2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. 3 They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah? 5 There were they in great fear; For God is in the generation of the righteous. 6 Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because Jehovah is his refuge. 7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When Jehovah bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.
Psalms · American Standard Version (1901)
Psalm 14 American Standard Version (1901)
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (7)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 10:4; Psalm 53:1; Romans 3:10–12; Romans 1:21–32; Psalm 92:6
- 2 Romans 3:11; Hebrews 11:6; Psalm 33:13–14; Psalm 102:19–20; Genesis 6:12
- 3 Romans 3:10–12; Isaiah 53:6; Isaiah 64:6; Romans 3:23; Psalm 14:1
- 4 Psalm 79:6; Jeremiah 10:25; Psalm 82:5; Isaiah 64:7; Romans 1:28
- 5 Psalm 112:2; Psalm 73:15; Psalm 24:6; Isaiah 43:1–2; Esther 8:7
- 6 Psalm 9:9; Psalm 4:2; Psalm 42:10; Ezekiel 35:10; Isaiah 37:10–11
- 7 Psalm 53:6; Psalm 85:1
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And, "There is none that understandeth, or that seeketh after God: they have all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable," they maintain to be said concerning ignorance of Bythus.
… then is oppressed by the load of evil habit, of a wicked life, of earthly lusts, I mean, so that that in his case is true which is piteously described in a certain Psalm, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God," he is such an one, of whom it is said, "Confession perisheth from the dead, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
for the godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none that doeth right among men: and again, They are all gone out of the way, they are together became unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one: and again, Cursing and stealing, and adultery, and murder are poured out upon the land.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… since the wickedness of the Evil One has prevailed so mightily against man's nature as even to drive some into denying the existence of God, that most foolish and woe-fulest pit of destruction (whose folly David, revealer of the Divine meaning, exposed when he said, The fool said in his heart, There is no God), so the disciples of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)