Psalm 53

Abraham Coles

Corrupt are they, from sun to sun
They foul iniquity have done,
None doeth good, not one, not one.

2 The Lord looked down from heaven to see
Who understood, who bowed the knee:
Complete is the apostasy;

3 All are gone back, all filthy found,
All vilest infamies abound,
No one does good above the ground.

4 Are evil-doers mad, who eat
My people up as they do meat,
And think they need not God entreat?

5 Where no fear was, great fear arose:
The bones of the besieging foes
God scattered — for despised were those.

6 O that from Zion might proceed
Salvations great for Israel's need —
Jacob made glad, from bondage freed.