To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
[53:1] The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
[53:2] God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
[53:3] They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
[53:4] Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?
[53:5] There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.
[53:6] Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.