Psalm XIV

The hearts and lives of wicked fools
Tell us they no God [truly] own:
Corrupt are they; their works are vile,
[Of them] that do good there is none.

Upon the worldly sons of men
From Heav'n God lookt [and searcht] abroad,
To see if any understood,
And seriously sought [after] God.

They wholly filthy are become,
They all [from him] aside are gone;
None of them liveth to do good,
Of all these [wordly] men, not one.

Have all these men of wicked works
No [wit or] knowledge left at all?
Who eat my people up as bread,
On God they never [truly] call.

Yet oft in sin they have great fear;
For God's among [and for] the just.

They shame the counsels of poor Saints,
Because to God they [seek and] trust.

O that our help from God were come!
When God brings back the [Captives] sad,
Then Jacob shall therein rejoyce,
And Israel shall [in him] be glad.