◄ Psalm 14:2 {13:2} ►
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Good News Translation
The LORD looks down from heaven at us humans to see if there are any who are wise, any who worship him.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD looks down from heaven on humankind to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.

Contemporary English Version
From heaven the LORD looks down to see if anyone is wise enough to search for him.

New American Bible
The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if even one is wise, if even one seeks God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God.

The Lord

Psalm 33:13,14 The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of men. . . .

Psalm 102:19,20 Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth. . . .

Genesis 6:12 And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth),

Genesis 11:5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

Genesis 18:21 I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.

Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from thy holy habitation and the place of thy glory: where is thy zeal, and thy strength, the multitude of thy bowels, and of thy mercies? they have held back themselves from me.

Isaiah 64:1 O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, and wouldst come down: the mountains would melt away at thy presence.

Lamentations 3:50 Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.

any

Psalm 82:5 They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

Psalm 107:43 Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the mercies of the Lord?

Proverbs 2:9 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:

Proverbs 8:5 Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.

Proverbs 9:4,16 Come, eat my bread, and drink the wine which I have mingled for you. . . .

Isaiah 27:11 Its harvest shall be destroyed with drought, women shall come and teach it: for it is not a wise people, therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it: and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Jeremiah 4:22 For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Daniel 12:10 Many shall be chosen, and made white, and shall be tried as fire: and the wicked shall deal wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the learned shall understand.

Matthew 13:15 For the heart of this people is grown gross, and with their ears they have been dull of hearing, and their eyes they have shut: lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

Romans 3:11 There is none that understandeth: there is none that seeketh after God.

seek

Psalm 69:32 Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.

2 Chronicles 19:3 But good works are found in thee, because thou hast taken away the groves out of the land of Juda, and hast prepared thy heart to seek the Lord the God of thy fathers.

2 Chronicles 30:19 To all them, who with their whole heart, seek the Lord the God of their fathers: and will not impute it to them that they are not sanctified.

Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say to you: Seek of pythons, and of diviners, who mutter in their enchantments: should not the people seek of their God, for the living of the dead?

Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that seek him.

Context
The Fool Says There is No God
1Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one. 2The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God.3They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good: no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they acted deceitfully: the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:21
I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.

1 Chronicles 22:19
Give therefore your hearts and your souls, to seek the Lord your God and arise, and build a sanctuary to the Lord God, that the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the vessels consecrated to the Lord, may be brought into the house, which is built to the name of the Lord.

Psalm 33:13
The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of men.

Psalm 33:14
From his habitation which he hath prepared, he hath looked upon all that dwell on the earth.

Psalm 92:6
The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.

Psalm 102:19
Because he hath looked forth from his high sanctuary: from heaven the Lord hath looked upon the earth.

Jeremiah 8:6
I attended, and hearkened; no man speaketh what is good, there is none that doth penance for his sin, saying: What have I done? They are all turned to their own course, as a horse rushing to the battle.

Psalm 14:1
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