🎵WEB · Psalms 14:5
What does Psalms 14:5 mean?
"There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous."
— Psalms 14:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?
There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When Yahweh restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
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