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psalm 14
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psalm 14:1
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The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God
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They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one. |
January 15, 2025: Jim Denison wrote: In my fallenness, I am less a good person who sometimes does bad things than a bad person who tries to do good things. David observed, “There is none who does good, not even one” (Psalm 14:3). Paul’s admission is mine: “I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing” (Romans 7:18–19). I am grateful that God forgives all I confess to him (1 John 1:9), but my default subliminal picture of him has typically been of a holy Lord who is consistently displeased with my failures and shortcomings. But this is not so. |
==psalm 14:4:
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call on the Lord?
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call on the Lord?
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There they are in great fear,
For God is with the generation of the righteous.
For God is with the generation of the righteous.
==psalm 14:6:
You shame the counsel of the poor,
But the Lord is his refuge.
But the Lord is his refuge.
==psalm 14:7:
Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the Lord brings back the captivity of His people,
Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.
When the Lord brings back the captivity of His people,
Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.