PSALM 14

METER:  SM (66 86)

SUGGESTED TUNES:  ST. BRIDE, FESTAL SONG or ST. THOMAS

This is the meter for such hymns as "Rise Up, O Men of God" and "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord"

1.  Fools say with-in their hearts

    That there is not a God.

    Cor-rupt and hate-ful are their deeds;

    Not one of them does good.

2.  The Lord looks down from heav'n

    Upon all hu-man-kind

    To see if any wise-ly act,

    If they seek after God.

3.  They all have gone a-stray,

    They're all a-like cor-rupt;

    There is not one who does what's good,

    No, not a sin-gle one.

4.  Do they no know-ledge have,

    The e-vil-do-ers all

    Who eat my peo-ple like they're bread

    And call not on the Lord?

5.  There they shall know great fear,

    For God is with the just.

    You would con-found op-pressed ones' plans,

    But God is their ref-uge.

6.  O that de-liv-erance would

    For Is-rael come from Zi'n!

    When God re-stores the ex-iled ones,

    God's peo-ple shall re-joice.

Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Sing the Psalms! by Dale A. Schoening.  Copyright 1988 Dale A. Schoening.

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