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Do the workers of iniquity (A)not know,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread
And do not call upon God?
There they were in great dread (B)where no dread had been;
For God (C)scattered the bones of [a]him who encamped against you;
You (D)put them to shame, because (E)God had rejected them.
Oh, that (F)the salvation of Israel [b]would come out of Zion!
When God [c]restores His captive people,
[d]May Jacob rejoice, may Israel be glad.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 53:5 Or possibly those
  2. Psalm 53:6 Lit would be
  3. Psalm 53:6 Or restores the fortunes of His people
  4. Psalm 53:6 Or Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad

Do all these evildoers know nothing?

They devour my people as though eating bread;
    they never call on God.
But there they are, overwhelmed with dread,
    where there was nothing to dread.(A)
God scattered the bones(B) of those who attacked you;(C)
    you put them to shame,(D) for God despised them.(E)

Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion!
    When God restores his people,
    let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!

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