"The fool"—that is God's name for the wicked—"has said in his heart, there is no God. They have corrupted themselves (so the First verse of Psalm 14 should read); they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good."
Turning to Romans 3:1010As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: (Romans 3:10) to 18, we find the summing up of what is said here, and in the later books of the Old Testament, including other Psalms, about man away from God.
What David was given to see, and to write, more than a thousand years before the Epistle to the Romans was written, is not a pleasing record, but could anything better be written on such a subject today, nearly three thousand years after David penned the 14th Psalm? No, except where the grace of God has made a change. Man has sought out many inventions, but gone farther from God.
The close of the psalm brings before the reader, Zion, the hill of God's holiness, as it will be, and the end of the captivity of His earthly people. This introduces the question, Who shall sojourn in the Lord's tent; who shall dwell in that hill of Zion where holiness will reign?