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David wrote this special song for the music leader. Use the music called Mahalath.

People are wicked[a]

53 A fool thinks that there is no God.
People like that are bad.
    They do evil things.
None of them does anything that is good.
God looks down from heaven
    at the people on earth.
He wants to see if there is anyone who is really wise
    and who wants to know God.
But they have all turned away.
    They have all become evil.
Nobody does anything that is good,
    not even one person.
People who do wicked things understand nothing.
They destroy my people
    as easily as they eat bread.
They never pray to God.
But now they are very afraid
    when there is nothing to be afraid of!
God has completely won against his enemies,
    the people that attack you, his people.
God has turned against them,
    so you are able to make them ashamed!
God, you are the one who saves your people, Israel!
Leave your home in Zion
    and make your people strong again!
When God blesses his people,
Jacob's descendants will sing!
    Yes, Israel's people will be very happy![b]

Footnotes

  1. 53:1 Psalm 53 is nearly the same as Psalm 14.
  2. 53:6 Jacob's descendants and Israel's people are names for God's people. God changed Jacob's name to be ‘Israel’.

大卫的训诲诗。交给圣咏团长,曲调用“麻哈拉”。

人的邪恶(A)

53 愚顽人心里说:“没有 神。”
    他们都败坏,行了可憎恶的罪孽,
    没有一个人行善。

 神从天上垂看世人,
    要看有明白的没有,
    有寻求 神的没有。

他们全都退后,一同变为污秽,
    没有行善的,
    连一个也没有。

作恶的都没有知识吗?
    他们吞吃我的百姓如同吃饭一样,
    并不求告 神。

他们在无可惧怕之处就大大害怕,
    因为 神使那安营攻击你之人的骨头散开了。
    你使他们蒙羞,因为 神弃绝了他们。
但愿以色列的救恩出自锡安
当 神救回他被掳子民的时候,
    雅各要快乐,以色列要欢喜。

53 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.