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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4 additional translationsThe fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.
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.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is noGod. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.