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Psalm 14 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
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  • 1965
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1 To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
1 For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
2 The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
3 They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.
3 They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
5 Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.
5 There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
6 You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.
6 You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
7 May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.
7 Oh 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.
Cross references (7)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 10:4; Psalm 53:1; Romans 3:10–12; Romans 1:21–32; Psalm 92:6
  2. 2 Romans 3:11; Hebrews 11:6; Psalm 33:13–14; Psalm 102:19–20; Genesis 6:12
  3. 3 Romans 3:10–12; Isaiah 53:6; Isaiah 64:6; Romans 3:23; Psalm 14:1
  4. 4 Psalm 79:6; Jeremiah 10:25; Psalm 82:5; Isaiah 64:7; Romans 1:28
  5. 5 Psalm 112:2; Psalm 73:15; Psalm 24:6; Isaiah 43:1–2; Esther 8:7
  6. 6 Psalm 9:9; Psalm 4:2; Psalm 42:10; Ezekiel 35:10; Isaiah 37:10–11
  7. 7 Psalm 53:6; Psalm 85:1

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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).

How these were chosen

“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).

  1. Quotes verse 14:3 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book I, Chapters XVIII–XIX)

    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.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 14:1 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon XVII)

    … 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)

  3. Quotes verse 14:3 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XII)

    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)

  4. Quotes verse 14:1 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book I)

    … 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)