Chapter summary

The psalm begins by stating that fools who deny God are corrupt and commit vile deeds without doing any good. God looks down from heaven upon humanity to find anyone who understands or seeks Him, but observes that all have turned away together. The text questions whether workers of iniquity, who devour God's people like bread and refuse to call upon Him, will ever learn. These evildoers are suddenly overwhelmed with dread where there was nothing to fear because God scatters the bones of those who besieged His people and puts them to shame. The passage concludes with an expression of longing for the salvation of Israel to come from Zion so that Jacob and Israel may rejoice when God restores His captive people.

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