Psaumes 14
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Un monde corrompu[a]
14 Au chef de chœur : de David.
Les insensés pensent : ╵« Dieu n’existe pas. »
Ils sont corrompus, ╵leurs agissements sont abominables, ╵et aucun ne fait le bien[b].
2 Du ciel, l’Eternel observe ╵tout le genre humain :
« Reste-t-il un homme sage
qui s’attend à Dieu ?
3 Ils se sont tous égarés, ╵tous sont corrompus,
et aucun ne fait le bien,
même pas un seul.
4 Tous ces gens qui font le mal, ╵n’ont-ils rien compris ?
Car ils dévorent mon peuple, ╵tout comme on mange du pain[c] !
Jamais ils n’invoquent l’Eternel ! »
5 Ils sont saisis d’épouvante,
car Dieu est avec les justes.
6 Pensez-vous pouvoir ruiner ╵les projets des pauvres ?
L’Eternel est leur refuge.
7 Ah, que vienne du mont de Sion ╵le salut pour Israël !
Quand l’Eternel changera ╵le sort de son peuple[d],
Jacob criera d’allégresse, ╵Israël, de joie.
Psalm 14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Psalm 14[a]
A Lament over Widespread Corruption
1 For the leader. Of David.
I
The fool says in his heart,
“There is no God.”
Their deeds are loathsome and corrupt;
not one does what is good.(A)
2 The Lord looks down from heaven
upon the children of men,(B)
To see if even one is wise,
if even one seeks God.(C)
3 All have gone astray;
all alike are perverse.
Not one does what is good,
not even one.(D)
II
4 Will these evildoers never learn?
They devour my people as they devour bread;(E)
they do not call upon the Lord.(F)
5 They have good reason, then, to fear;
God is with the company of the just.
6 They would crush the hopes of the poor,
but the poor have the Lord as their refuge.
III
7 (G)Oh, that from Zion might come
the salvation of Israel!
Jacob would rejoice, and Israel be glad
when the Lord restores his people![b]
Footnotes
- Psalm 14 The lament (duplicated in Ps 53) depicts the world as consisting of two types of people: “the fool” (equals the wicked, Ps 14:1–3) and “the company of the just” (Ps 14:4–6; also called “my people,” and “the poor”). The wicked persecute the just, but the Psalm expresses the hope that God will punish the wicked and reward the good.
- 14:7 Jacob…Israel…his people: the righteous poor are identified with God’s people.
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