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Psalm 14

Psa. 14:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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<<To the chief Musician
natsach (Hebrew #5329)
properly, to glitter from afar, i.e. to be eminent (as a superintendent, especially of the Temple services and its music); also (as denominative from 5331), to be permanent
KJV usage: excel, chief musician (singer), oversee(-r), set forward.
Pronounce: naw-tsakh'
Origin: a primitive root
, A Psalm of David
David (Hebrew #1732)
Daviyd {daw-veed'}; from the same as 1730; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse
KJV usage: David.
Pronounce: daw-veed'
Origin: rarely (fully)
.>> The fool
nabal (Hebrew #5036)
stupid; wicked (especially impious)
KJV usage: fool(-ish, -ish man, -ish woman), vile person.
Pronounce: naw-bawl'
Origin: from 5034
hath said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
in his heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
, There is no God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
. They are corrupt
shachath (Hebrew #7843)
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).
Pronounce: shaw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
, they have done abominable
ta`ab (Hebrew #8581)
to loathe, i.e. (morally) detest
KJV usage: (make to be) abhor(-red), (be, commit more, do) abominable(-y), X utterly.
Pronounce: taw-ab'
Origin: a primitive root
works
`aliylah (Hebrew #5949)
from 5953 in the sense of effecting; an exploit (of God), or a performance (of man, often in a bad sense); by implication, an opportunity
KJV usage: act(-ion), deed, doing, invention, occasion, work.
Pronounce: al-ee-law'
Origin: or malilah {al-ee-law'}
, there is none that doeth
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
good
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-3:  David describes a natural man.
4-6:  He convinces the wicked by the light of their conscience.
7:  He glories in the salvation of God.
fool.
Psa. 73:3• 3For I was envious at the arrogant (fools),{HR}Seeing the peace of wicked (men). (Psa. 73:3)
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Psa. 92:6• 6A brutish man knoweth not,{HR}And a fool doth not understand this. (Psa. 92:6)
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Psa. 107:17• 17Fools, by [the] way of their transgression,{HR}And by their iniquities, are afflicted, (Psa. 107:17)
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1 Sam. 25:25• 25Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send. (1 Sam. 25:25)
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Prov. 1:7,22• 7The fear of Jehovah (is) the beginning of knowledge:{HR}Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
 22How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness,{HR}And scorners delight them in scorning,{HR}And fools hate wisdom? (Prov. 1:7,22)
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Prov. 13:19• 19The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul;{HR}But [it is] abomination to the foolish to depart from evil. (Prov. 13:19)
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Prov. 27:22• 22If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle,{HR}Yet will not his folly depart from him. (Prov. 27:22)
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Luke 12:20• 20But God said unto him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared? (Luke 12:20)
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Psa. 10:4• 4The wicked [man] according to the pride of his anger seeketh not;{HR}All his thoughts [are], There is no God. (Psa. 10:4)
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Psa. 10•  (Psa. 10)
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Psa. 52:1‑6• 1To the chief musician; an instruction of David, when Doeg the Edomite went in, and told Saul and said to him, David went to the house of Ahimelech.{HR}Why boastest thou thyself in evil, mighty man?{HR}The mercy of God [is] all the day.
 2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs,{HR}As a sharp razor, working deceit.
 3Thou hast loved evil [rather] than good,{HR}Falsehood [rather] than speaking righteousness. Selah.
 4Thou hast loved all words of devouring,{HR}O tongue of deceit.
 5God shall likewise destroy thee forever;{HR}He shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of tent,{HR}And root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
 6The righteous also shall see and fear,{HR}And laugh at him. (Psa. 52:1‑6)
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Job 22:13• 13And thou sayest, What knoweth God?{HR}Will he judge through the darkness? (Job 22:13)
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Rom. 1:28• 28And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things; (Rom. 1:28)
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Eph. 2:12• 12that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: (Eph. 2:12)
They are.
Psa. 36:1‑4• 1To the chief musician; of the servant of Jehovah, of David.{HR}The transgression of the wicked saith in the innermost part of my heart,{HR}There is no fear of God before his eyes.
 2For he hath flattered himself in his own eyes,{HR}Until that his iniquity is found out and hated.
 3The words of his mouth [are] falsehood and deceit;{HR}He hath left off to be wise, to do well.
 4He deviseth falsehood upon his bed,{HR}He setteth himself upon a way [that is] not good,{HR}He rejecteth not evil. (Psa. 36:1‑4)
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Psa. 94:4‑8• 4They prate, they speak arrogantly;{HR}All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
 5They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah,{HR}And afflict thine heritage.
 6They slay the widow and the stranger,{HR}And murder the fatherless.
 7And they say, Jah will not see,{HR}Nor will the God of Jacob consider.
 8Consider, ye brutish among the people,{HR}And fools, when will ye be wise? (Psa. 94:4‑8)
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Gen. 6:5,11‑12• 5And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man [was] great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continually .
 11And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
 12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. (Gen. 6:5,11‑12)
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Isa. 1:4• 4Ah! sinful nation; a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children corrupting themselves. They have forsaken Jehovah; they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they are estranged backward. (Isa. 1:4)
abominable.
Job 15:16• 16How much less the abominable and corrupt,{HR}Man, that drinketh iniquity like water. (Job 15:16)
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Matt. 12:34• 34Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Matt. 12:34)
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Matt. 15:19• 19For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; (Matt. 15:19)
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John 3:19‑20• 19And this is the judgment, that the light hath come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
 20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not unto the light lest his works should be convicted; (John 3:19‑20)
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Rom. 1:21‑32• 21Because, having known God, they glorified him not as God nor were thankful, but became vain in their thoughts, and their heart void of understanding was darkened.
 22Professing to be wise, they became fools,
 23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of winged and four-footed and creeping [creatures].
 24Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness so that their bodies were dishonoured among them;
 25which exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and served and reverenced the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever, Amen.
 26On this account God gave them up to vile passions; for both their females exchanged the natural use into the unnatural,
 27and likewise the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males working out unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was meet.
 28And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things;
 29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
 30slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
 31void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless;
 32which, knowing right well the righteous award of God that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practice them but also have a fellow-pleasure in those that do [them]. (Rom. 1:21‑32)
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Titus 1:16• 16They profess to know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable and disobedient, and for every good work reprobate. (Titus 1:16)
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Titus 3:3• 3For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another. (Titus 3:3)
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Rev. 21:8• 8But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)
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Rom. 3:10‑12• 10even as it is written, “There is none righteous, not one;
 11there is not the [man] that understandeth; there is not the [man] that seeketh out God.
 12All went out of the way, together they became unprofitable; there is none that practiceth kindness, there is not so much as one.” (Rom. 3:10‑12)
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Eph. 2:1‑3• 1And you, being dead in your offences and your sins,
 2in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
 3among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest; (Eph. 2:1‑3)
• Book 1, Series 2. The great tribulation. (““The Placement of the Psalms in Prophecy”” by B. Anstey)
• God apparently forgets, and is as One hidden in Psalms 13 the climax of evil is reached by the fool and the workers of iniquity coming to the forefront in Psalms 14. (“Psalm 14” by H. Smith)
• The characteristic man of this terrible time will be “the fool” ―the man who has no fear of God. (“Psalm 14” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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oTo the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The foolp hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.

JND Translation Notes

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With this Psalm compare Ps. 53.
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Nabal. see Ps. 53.1.

W. Kelly Translation

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To the chief musician, by David.{HR}The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.{HR}They have acted corruptly, they have acted abominably [in] work;{HR}There is none doing good.