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Book of Psalms


Psalm 14

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

King James Version

1 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 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all 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 the LORD.
5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.1

References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2. Matthew Henry Bible Commentary - http:// eword. gospelcom .net/ comments /psalm/mh /psalm14 .htm
3. Spurgeon's Treasury of David - http:// eword. gospelcom .net/ comments/ psalm/ spurgeon/ psalm14 .htm

DIVISION OF PSALM 14

I. A charge exhibited against a wicked world (v. 1).
II. The proof of the charge (v. 2, 3).
III. A serious expostulation with sinners, especially with persecutors, upon it (v. 4-6).
IV. A believing prayer for the salvation of Israel and a joyful expectation of it (v. 7).2

 

ST PAUL REFERS TO PSALM 14

The apostle Paul, in Romans 3:10 etc, has shown incidentally that the drift of the inspired writer is to show that both Jews and Gentiles are all under sin; there was, therefore, no reason for fixing upon any particular historical occasion, when all of history reeks with terrible evidence of human corruption. With instructive alterations, David has given us in Psalm 53 a second edition of this humiliating psalm, being moved of the Holy Ghost thus doubly to declare a truth which is ever distasteful to carnal minds.3



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