Salmos 53

1O tolo diz em seu coração: Não há Deus.Eles se corrompem, e cometem abominável perversidade, ninguém há que faça o bem. 2Deus olhou desde os céus para os filhos dos homens, para ver se havia alguém prudente, que buscasse a Deus. 3Todos se desviaram, juntamente se fizeram detestáveis; ninguém há que faça o bem, nem um sequer. 4Será que não tem conhecimento os praticantes de maldade, que devoram a meu povo, como se comessem pão? Eles não clamam a Deus. 5Ali eles terão grande medo, onde não havia medo; porque Deus espalhou os ossos daquele que te cercava; tu os humilhaste, porque Deus os rejeitou. 6Ah, que de Sião venha a salvação de Israel! Quando Deus restaurar seu povo de seu infortúnio, Jacó jubilará, Israel se alegrará.

1The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. 2God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God. 3Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one. 4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God? 5There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. 6Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

1Een onderwijzing van David, voor den opperzangmeester, op Machalath. 2De dwaas zegt in zijn hart: Er is geen God; zij verderven het, en zij bedrijven gruwelijk onrecht; er is niemand, die goed doet. 3God heeft van den hemel nedergezien op de mensenkinderen, om te zien, of iemand verstandig ware, die God zocht. 4Een ieder van hen is teruggekeerd, te zamen zijn zij stinkende geworden, er is niemand, die goed doet, ook niet een. 5Hebben dan de werkers der ongerechtigheid geen kennis, die Mijn volk opeten, alsof zij brood aten? Zij roepen God niet aan. 6Aldaar zijn zij met vervaardheid vervaard geworden, waar geen vervaardheid was; want God heeft de beenderen desgenen, die u belegerde, verstrooid; gij hebt hen beschaamd gemaakt, want God heeft hen verworpen. Och, dat Israels verlossingen uit Sion kwamen! Als God de gevangenen Zijns volks zal doen wederkeren, dan zal zich Jakob verheugen, Israel zal verblijd zijn.