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Do not evildoers know,
they who eat my people as though they were eating bread?
They do not call on God.
There they are very fearful[a]
where no fear had been,
because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
Oh, that from Zion[b] would come salvation for Israel!
When God returns the fortunes[c] of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 53:5 Literally “they feared a fear”
  2. Psalm 53:6 Literally “Who will give that from Zion”
  3. Psalm 53:6 Or “captivity”

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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