Godless Gloominess

Tune: Abridge

('Be thou my guardian and my guide')

Psalm 14

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The fool has said within his (/her) heart

There is no God, no part

They corrupt, abominable

None does good, none at all

 

The Lord looked down from His heaven

Upon the sons (/daughters) of men

To seek if any understood

If any seek God would

 

But none, for they all gone aside

In selfishness and pride

All become filthy, none good do

Not even just a few

 

Have those who work iniquity

No knowledge, they not see?

They eat up God's people as bread

Call not on Him, their Head

 

There the wicked in great fear, see

God in the midst He be

In generation of righteous

Dwelling sure among us

 

The wicked have shamed the counsel

Of the poor, they near fall

God, He the refuge of the poor

Will come to their help sure

 

Oh that Israel's salvation

Would come out of Zion

When the Lord brings back His captives

They shall rejoice, each lives