¹Untuk pemimpin kor. Menurut lagu: Mahalat. Nyanyian pengajaran Daud. (53-2) Orang dungu berkata dalam hati, "Tidak ada Allah." Perbuatan mereka jahat dan keji; tidak ada yang berbuat baik.

¹For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good.

²(53-3) Dari surga TUHAN memandang umat manusia, untuk mencari orang bijak yang menyembah Dia.

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

³(53-4) Tetapi semua orang sudah menyeleweng dan bejat tak ada seorang pun yang berbuat baik.

³Every one of them is gone back; they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.

⁴(53-5) Kata TUHAN, "Tak sadarkah orang-orang jahat itu? Mereka hidup dengan merampasi umat-Ku, dan tak pernah berdoa kepada-Ku."

⁴Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?

⁵(53-6) Orang jahat akan sangat ketakutan, padahal tak ada yang menakutkan, sebab Allah menghamburkan tulang orang yang mengepung kamu; mereka telah ditolak Allah, maka kamu akan mengalahkan mereka.

⁵There were they in great fear, where no fear was; For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: Thou hast put them to shame, because of God hath rejected them.

⁶(53-7) Dari Bukit Sion datanglah kiranya keselamatan bagi Israel. Maka keturunan Yakub akan bersukacita bila TUHAN memulihkan keadaan umat-Nya.

⁶Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice, [and] Israel shall be glad.