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class="q1"><span class="v19_53_1">They are all corrupt,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_1">and they have done terrible things;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_1">there is no one who does what is right.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_53_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.53.2" class="v19_53_2">2</span>God looks down from heaven at people</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_2">to see if there are any who are wise,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_2">any who worship him.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_53_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.53.3" class="v19_53_3">3</span>But they have all turned away;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_3">they are all equally bad.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_53_3">Not one of them does what is right,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_3">not a single one.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_53_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.53.4" class="v19_53_4">4</span>“Don't they know?” God asks.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_4">“Are these evildoers ignorant?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_53_4">They live by robbing my people,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_4">and they never pray to me.”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_53_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.53.5" class="v19_53_5">5</span>But then they will become terrified,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_5">as they have never been before,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_5">for God will scatter the bones of the enemies of his people.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_53_5">God has rejected them,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_5">and so Israel will totally defeat them.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_53_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.53.6" class="v19_53_6">6</span>How I pray that victory</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_6">will come to Israel from Zion.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_53_6">How happy the people of Israel will be</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_53_6">when God makes them prosperous again!</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">HEBREW TITLE: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A poem by David.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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