When No One is Good

<p>Psalm 14</p><p><br></p><p>English Standard Version</p><p><br></p><p>To the choirmaster. Of David.</p><p>The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”</p><p>    They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds;</p><p>    there is none who does good.</p><p>The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man,</p><p>    to see if there are any who understand,</p><p>    who seek after God.</p><p>They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt;</p><p>    there is none who does good,</p><p>    not even one.</p><p>Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers</p><p>    who eat up my people as they eat bread</p><p>    and do not call upon the Lord?</p><p>There they are in great terror,</p><p>    for God is with the generation of the righteous.</p><p>You would shame the plans of the poor,</p><p>    but the Lord is his refuge.</p><p>Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!</p><p>    When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people,</p><p>    let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.</p>