A Plea For Deliverance

¹ For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.
² The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there are any who understand,
Who seek after God.

Foolish Man

What is Good

Does What Is Right

O God

David

No

Sin

Psalm 10:4

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.
All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

Romans 3:10-12

as it is written,
“There is none righteous, not even one;

Genesis 6:5

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:11-12

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

1 Samuel 25:25

Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and folly is with him; but I your maidservant did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

Job 15:16

How much less one who is detestable and corrupt,
Man, who drinks iniquity like water!

Job 22:13

“You say, ‘What does God know?
Can He judge through the thick darkness?

Psalm 36:1-4

For the choir director. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord.
Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart;
There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Psalm 52:1-6

For the choir director. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

Psalm 53:1

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

Psalm 73:3

For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalm 92:6

A senseless man has no knowledge,
Nor does a stupid man understand this:

Psalm 94:4-8

They pour forth words, they speak arrogantly;
All who do wickedness vaunt themselves.

Psalm 107:17

Fools, because of their rebellious way,
And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded?
And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing
And fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 13:19

Desire realized is sweet to the soul,
But it is an abomination to fools to turn away from evil.

Proverbs 27:22

Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain,
Yet his foolishness will not depart from him.

Isaiah 1:4

Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,
Offspring of evildoers,
Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the Lord,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away from Him.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’

John 3:19-20

This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

Romans 1:21-32

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Ephesians 2:1-3

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.

Titus 3:3

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”