1. Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said in his hear t: There is no God.

2. They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good.

3. God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God.

4. All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that doth good, no not one.

5. Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?

6. They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.

7. Who will give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when God shall bring back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.





Por que a tentação passada deixa na alma uma certa perturbação? perguntou um penitente a Padre Pio. Ele respondeu: “Você já presenciou um tremor de terra? Quando tudo estremece a sua volta, você também é sacudido; no entanto, não necessariamente fica enterrado nos destroços!” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina