Psalm 14
The full text of Psalm 14 in the Trinity Bible Version — clear modern English, translated from the original Hebrew. Free to read.
For the choirmaster. Of David.
1 The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'
They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds;
there is none who does good.
2 The LORD looks down from heaven
on the children of man,
to see if there are any who understand,
who seek after God.
3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.
4 Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers
who eat up my people as they eat bread
and do not call upon the LORD?
5 There they are in great dread,
for God is with the generation of the righteous.
6 You would shame the plans of the poor,
but the LORD is his refuge.
7 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
Translation notes (2)
- Psalm 14:1a The Hebrew word nabal describes not intellectual atheism but practical godlessness; it refers to the "fool" who lives as if God is irrelevant.
- Psalm 14:3a Some Septuagint manuscripts continue this verse with several additional lines matching Paul's citation in Romans 3:13-18, drawn from other psalms and from Isaiah 59. These lines are absent from the Masoretic Text and are widely judged to have entered the Greek Psalter from Paul's composite quotation rather than from a Hebrew original.
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