They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon God?
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 despised them.
When God brings back1 the captivity of His people,
Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.
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Psalms 53:5
For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them - The reader will see, on comparing this with the fifth and sixth verses of Psalms 14:1-7, that the words above are mostly added here to what is said there; and appear to be levelled against the Babylonians, who sacked and ruined Jerusalem, and who were now sacked and ruined in their turn. The sixth verse of Psalms 14:1-7, "Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge," is added here by more than twenty of Kennicott' s and De Rossi' s MSS.
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