Psalm 53:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² God looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any who understood, who sought (inquired after and desperately required) God.

American Standard Version (1901)

² God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.

Common English Bible

² God looks down from heaven on humans to see if anyone is wise, to see if anyone seeks God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² when the Ziphites had arrived and they said to Saul, "Has not David been hidden with us?"

Psalm 53:2 Cross References

Isaiah 55:6

THUS saith the Lord : Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my justice to be revealed.

2 Chronicles 15:2

Do you therefore take courage, and let not your hands he weakened: for there shall be a reward for your work.

Psalm 111:10

The just shall be in everlasting remembrance: he shall not hear the evil hearing. His heart is ready to hope in the Lord:

Jeremiah 23:24

2 Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.

Psalm 27:8

A psalm for David himself. Unto thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

2 Chronicles 19:3

In Jerusalem also Josaphat appointed Levites, and priests and chiefs of the families of Israel, to judge the judgment and the cause of the Lord for the inhabitants thereof.

Jeremiah 16:17

And thou shalt be left stripped of thy inheritance, which I gave thee: and I will make thee serve thy enemies in a land which thou knowest not: because thou hast kindled a fire in my wrath, it shall burn for ever.

Psalm 102:19

6 They shall perish but thou remainest: and all of them shall grow old like a garment: And as a vesture thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed.

Psalm 11:4

Who have said: We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us?

Psalm 10:4

1 For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end.

Job 28:28

When the Almighty was with me: and my servants round about me?

1 Chronicles 28:9

4 Gold by weight for every vessel for the ministry. And silver by weight ac- cording to the diversity of the vessels and uses.

Deuteronomy 4:6

1 And you came to the foot of the mount, which burned even unto heaven: and there was darkness, and a cloud and obscurity in it.