1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They were corrupted, and they have become abominable in their studies. There is no one who does good; there is not even one. 2 The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any who were considering or seeking God. 3 They have all gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully; the venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Grief and unhappiness are in their ways; and the way of peace, they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes. 4 Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread? 5 They have not called upon the Lord. There, they have trembled in fear, where there was no fear. 6 For the Lord is with the just generation. You have confounded the counsel of the needy because the Lord is his hope. 7 Who will grant the salvation of Israel from Zion? When the Lord turns away the captivity of his people, Jacob will exult, and Israel will rejoice.
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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Cross references (7)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in CPDV.
- 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). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 14.
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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)