KJV King James Version
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. 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.
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Psalm 14:1
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
WEB World English Bible
For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.
ASV American Standard Version
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
To the Overseer.—By David. A fool hath said in his heart, ‘God is not;’ They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.
Surrounding context — Psalm 14
1 To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. 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.
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אָ֘מַ֤רH559 · a.marto sayנָבָ֣לH5036 · na.valfoolishבְּ֭לִבּוֹH3820 · levheartאֵ֣יןH369 · a.yinnothingאֱלֹהִ֑יםH430 · e.lo.himGodהִֽשְׁחִ֗יתוּH7843 · sha.chatto ruinהִֽתְעִ֥יבוּH8581 · ta.avto abhorעֲלִילָ֗הH5949 · a.li.lahwantonnessאֵ֣יןH369 · a.yinnothingעֹֽשֵׂה־H6213 · a.sahto make: doטֽוֹב׃H2896 · tovpleasant
Cross-references
Psalm 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts.Psalm 53:1To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. 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.Romans 3:10-12As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:Romans 1:21-32Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.Psalm 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.Ephesians 2:1-3And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins;Genesis 6:5And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.Matthew 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.Luke 12:20But God said unto him, [Thou] fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?Psalm 94:4-8[How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?Matthew 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.John 3:19-20And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.Genesis 6:11-12The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.Proverbs 13:19The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but [it is] abomination to fools to depart from evil.Proverbs 27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.Isaiah 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
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