Psalm 14:2

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Summary

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

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The lord

When the LORD looks down from heaven, he observes every human being.

For when he looked down from his holy heights the LORD looked over the earth from heaven

God looked at the earth, observing how corrupt its population had become, because the entire human race had corrupted itself.

However, the LORD descended to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building.

I'm going down to see whether they've acted according to the protests that have reached me. If not, I wish to know."

Look down from heaven, and see from your holy and glorious dwelling. Where are your zeal and your might? Where are the yearning of your heart and your compassion? They are held back from me.

If only you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence

until the LORD bends down to see from heaven.

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They neither know nor understand; they walk about in the dark while all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Let whoever is wise observe these things, that they may comprehend the gracious love of the LORD. A song. A Davidic psalm.

Then you will understand what is right, just, and upright every good path.

Understand prudence, you naive people; and gain an understanding heart, you foolish ones.

"Let whoever is naive, turn in here." To anyone lacking sense, she says,

When its branches are dry, they are broken off, and women come and kindle fires with them, since this is a people who show no consideration. That is why the One who made them shows them no compassion; the One who created them shows them no mercy.

"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They're stupid children, they have no understanding. They're skilled at doing evil, but how to do good, they don't know."

Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined, though the wicked will continue to act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand. Nevertheless, the insightful will understand.

for this people's heart has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that they might not see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

No one understands. No one searches for God.