(a) He shows that the cause of all wickedness if forgetting God.

(b) There is nothing but disorder and wickedness among them.

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

3 They are {c} all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

(c) David here makes comparisons between the faithful and the reprobate, but Paul speaks the same of all men naturally, Ro 3:10.

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

5 {d} There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

(d) Where they think themselves most sure.

6 Ye have {e} shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

(e) You mock them who put their trust in God.

7 Oh that the salvation of {f} Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

(f) He prays for the whole Church whom he is assured God will deliver: for no one else but he can do it.