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Douay-Rheims · Challoner revision

Psalm 52

Numbered 52 in the Septuagint and Vulgate; Psalm 53 in most modern Bibles.

Dixit insipiens. The general corruption of man before the coming of Christ.

1 Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said in his heart: There is no God.

2 They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good.

3 God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God.

4 All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that doth good, no not one.

5 Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?

6 They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.

7 Who will give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when God shall bring back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

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